With four months to go until Mexico’s mid-term elections, the radical left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) is confident of laying down a significant marker. Led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the maverick twice former presidential candidate of the left-wing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), Morena has a long way to go before displacing the PRD as the main political force on the Left, but it is benefitting from the steady defection of PRD politicians, including some bigwigs. Opinion polls are already suggesting that it will take a chunk of the PRD’s support in the 500-seat federal lower chamber, and in local elections in the PRD’s traditional stronghold, the Distrito Federal (DF).End of preview - This article contains approximately 1102 words.
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