AMLO Wins Referendum on Mexican Presidency, 82% stayed home
HAVANA TIMES – Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has overwhelmingly won a strange referendum on whether he should complete his six-year term.
Usually such referendums are set in motion by opposition forces. However, in this case AMLO called for the referendum himself to fulfill a campaign promise to give voters a chance to remove him from office after three years.
Preliminary results show 91.1% of voters supported the president, but turnout was only 17.5%, as most critics of AMLO boycotted the referendum.