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What Will Lopez Obrador Do About Mexico's Corruption?
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Jul 5, 2018 | 20:24 GMT
![Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, speaks July 1 during a celebration at Zocalo square in Mexico City.](https://worldview.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/2x1_full/public/display-mexico-elections-gettyimages-990849060.jpg?itok=9CPQnLO8)
Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (left), speaks during a celebration at Zocalo square on July 1 in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador ran on a campaign to stamp out corruption, but a variety of factors are likely to hinder his anti-graft drive.
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Highlights
- Thanks to a congressional majority, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will become the strongest Mexican president in decades, but questions remain about how he will wield that power.
- Lopez Obrador's big win, as well as the success of his party in Congress, gives him a mandate to tackle corruption, but he will find it easier to stamp out graft at the federal level than among lower-level officials.
- As a politician who has acted pragmatically in the past, Lopez Obrador could abandon a far-reaching campaign against corruption in favor of a targeted anti-graft drive.
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