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.
在墨西哥大选中，安德烈斯•曼努埃尔•洛佩斯•奥夫拉多尔(Andrés Manuel López Obrador)以压倒性的胜利取得了一连串第一。他是几十年来唯一一位赢得大选的左翼候选人。他是一个世纪以来第一位主流政党之外赢得总统之位的反建制政治家。此外，他所属的党派，四年前才成立的复兴运动党(Morena party)，将在国会获得自墨西哥20年前民主转型以来最大优势的多数席位——在参议院中也可能如此。这将使洛佩斯•奥夫拉多尔成为数十年以来最强势的总统，他将有能力使其左派民族主义议程变成现实，而且还可以取消其前任支持的对市场友好的政策。