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Mexico: López Obrador’s First Year
Opening gambit
López Obrador’s first actions following his electoral victory involved matters of symbolic importance in terms of combatting corruption and curbing abuses by public officials–one of the campaign issues that most resonated with the electorate. Thus, even before he was sworn into office, his party approved several legislative bills to cut public servants’ salaries, scrap former presidents’ pensions and other benefits, remove immunity from prosecution for public officials, and strengthen the public consultation mechanism.
- A dominant start
- Opening gambit
- Austerity against corruption
- Relations with the Judiciary
- Public consultations
- Presidential recall
- Orthodox or heterodox?
- Relations with business
- Budgets
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Champion of the poor
- Focus on wellbeing
- Education
- Youth programmes
- Health
- Rural sector and indigenous population
- All change, but no change
- Few changes
- No improvement
- Curbing abuses
- Low priority
- Non-intervention
- Relations with the United States
- Outlook