MEXICO CITY -- Mexicans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new lower house of Congress, state governors and local lawmakers, in a race seen as a referendum on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's policies and efforts to shake up Mexico's institutions.
All 500 seats in the lower house, 15 state governorships and thousands of local leadership positions are up for grabs, with some 93.5 million Mexicans eligible to vote.
In the process, he has eroded institutional checks and balances and frequently criticized autonomous bodies, including the Bank of Mexico, prompting critics to sound the alarm about a dangerous centralization of power. That support partly reflects discontent with older parties. To stay on top in the long term, MORENA must improve its record on the economy, officials, lawmakers and voters say.
Sanghani said the president would likely deepen his state-centric policies, especially in the energy sector, in his remaining three years in office. "To leave a lasting legacy means changing the constitution, because if you change the constitution, it's much more difficult for governments who follow you to change it back," said Wood, adding the president would likely want to further centralize power in the hands of the executive and federal government over the states.
In the campaign leading up to Sunday's election, former President Felipe Calderon, a longstanding adversary of Lopez Obrador, said Mexicans were choosing between "democracy and dictatorship."Calderon, who ruled Mexico for the center-right PAN from 2006 to 2012, said the leftist government of Lopez Obrador had little regard for the constitution or the law.
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