Mexicans Head to Polls to Elect President

Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to be elected the country’s first leftist president since the 1980s

MEXICO CITY—Mexicans began voting Sunday in a presidential election expected to make former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador the country’s first leftist president since the 1980s.

Pre-election surveys gave Mr. López Obrador, who made the fight against corruption the theme of his campaign, more than a 20-percentage-point lead over the other two main candidates, conservative Ricardo Anaya and José Antonio Meade of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.

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