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Mexico opposition plots judicial coup as dirty tricks campaign fails
With an electoral wipeout at the hands of the progressive Claudia Sheinbaum looming, right-wing forces are spending millions on slander and manipulation to discredit Amlo’s ‘4T Transformation’ agenda, reports DAVID RABY
Followers of presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum crowd the Zocalo during her opening campaign rally in Mexico City, Friday, March 1, 2024
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IN recent articles, I have documented the political collapse of the Mexican right and the virtual certainty that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Morena party and its allies will win the June 2 elections with a large majority, both for president (with Claudia Sheinbaum) and for Congress.
I still believe this to be the case, but what I did not foresee was how far both the Mexican and the international Establishment would go to undermine the credibility of Amlo and the 4T Transformation.
They are spending millions of dollars on a dirty campaign of rumours, innuendo, slanders and outright lies, which are unlikely to win over voters in Mexico (indeed, they may well have the opposite effect), but which are aimed more at questioning the election’s legitimacy and to create a hostile international environment.
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