“When Andrés Manuel López Obrador assumes the presidency later this year, he will have the broadest mandate in Mexico’s recent history, a possible majority in the National Congress and allies in state governments across the country.
“What he will do with that mandate could alter the direction not just of Mexico’s internal politics, which have been transformed with the ruling party’s devastating defeat in Sunday’s election, but also the course of U.S.-Mexico relations.
“Although López Obrador struck a conciliatory tone in his acceptance speech, asking for “friendship and mutual respect” with the United States, he will now face the difficult task of reconciling his promises of compassion for migrants and the peasants drawn into Mexico’s drug trade with his interest in building a constructive relationship with President Trump.”
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