Weekly Report - 26 July 2018 (WR-18-29)

One of the parties in the Juntos Haremos Historia (JHH) coalition which carried Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador to power on 1 July is struggling for political survival. This might seem odd given that López Obrador won a decisive victory in the presidential elections and the JHH secured a thumping majority in both chambers of the federal congress. But the Partido Encuentro Social (PES), a conservative evangelical party, could see its party registration cancelled despite winning more than a tenth of the 500 seats up for grabs in the federal lower chamber of congress.

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