Andrés Manuel López Obrador has achieved a string of firsts with his resounding victory in Mexico’s elections. He is the only avowedly leftwing candidate to win an election for decades. He is the first anti-establishment politician from outside the mainstream to win the presidency in a century. To boot, his Morena party, founded only four years ago, will have the largest majority in Congress — and possibly the senate too — since Mexico’s transition to democracy 20 years ago. This should make Amlo, as he is popularly known, the most powerful president in more than a generation with the capacity to legislate his leftist nationalist agenda into reality and, should he chose, to unpick market-friendly policies favoured by his predecessors.
在墨西哥大選中，安德烈斯?曼努埃爾?洛佩斯?奧夫拉多爾(Andrés Manuel López Obrador)以壓倒性的勝利取得了一連串第一。他是幾十年來唯一一位贏得大選的左翼候選人。他是一個世紀以來第一位主流政黨之外贏得總統之位的反建制政治家。此外，他所屬的黨派，四年前才成立的復興運動黨(Morena party)，將在國會獲得自墨西哥20年前民主轉型以來最大優勢的多數席位——在參議院中也可能如此。這將使洛佩斯?奧夫拉多爾成為數十年以來最強勢的總統，他將有能力使其左派民族主義議程變成現實，而且還可以取消其前任支持的對市場友好的政策。