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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 27 April 2018
MEXICO: Anaya wins debate but will it help his cause?
There was no doubt who won the first televised debate of Mexico’s presidential campaign on 22 April. Ricardo Anaya of the Left-Right coalition Por México al Frente was the victor by a unanimous decision. The most fleet of foot, Anaya exposed the clear frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador as ponderous time and again but, crucially, the presidential candidate of the leftist Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) did not drop his guard. He absorbed the punches and stayed on his feet. With a large lead in the opinion polls and only just over two months until the elections, López Obrador might not need to do much more in the remaining two debates, relying on campaign rallies, his preferred modus operandi.
