Will the real Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador please stand up?

摘要

Each weekday morning at 6.30am, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-wing mayor of Mexico City, gives a press conference. Nowadays, these affairs feature fewer queries about traffic congestion or water shortages and many about economic and foreign policy. A presidential election is not due until July 2006. But only two questions matter in Mexican politics today. Can anyone stop Mr Lopez Obrador from becoming the next president? And if he wins, who will he 'most resemble: a responsible social democrat like Brazil's Lula or a reckless, authoritarian populist like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez?