By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - When Xochitl Galvez lumbered onto the floor of Mexico's Senate last December dressed in an inflatable green ...
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Her snubs to convention, gift for political theater and ability to connect with voters are traits that echo President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment veteran who was finally elected in 2018. Now he is trying to thwart her bid. The ruling party's commanding lead in polls has been forged around the personal popularity of Lopez Obrador, who under Mexican law can only serve a single six-year term.
Both she and Lopez Obrador worked to improve the lives of indigenous communities; she led a national commission for indigenous people under former President Vicente Fox, while he headed the Tabasco state indigenous affairs bureau in the 1970s. Lopez Obrador this year called Galvez"tenacious" during a headline-grabbing bid by her to get into his morning news conference. After she announced her presidential run, he began lambasting her, branding Galvez an"employee of the oligarchy."
"This is why Lopez Obrador is really worried," said Ruffo, whose 1989 gubernatorial victory over the PRI in Baja California heralded the beginning of the end of one-party rule in Mexico.
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