Largely dressed in white, protesters marched down the capital’s main thoroughfare, with many chanting: “AMLO, out!” using the president’s nickname, based on his initials.
MEXICO CITY – Several thousand people marched through Mexico City on Sunday to demand the resignation of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the first major protest against the leftist leader in the capital since he took office five months ago.
Lopez Obrador took office in December after defeating the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party , which had held power for most of the past nine decades. He has also struggled to curb the rampant violence among warring drug cartels. Scepticism is widespread over his plans to dig state oil firm Pemex out of crippling debt.
Various institutions have cut their forecasts for Mexican economic growth in 2019, and preliminary figures from the national statistics office showed the economy contracted during the first quarter.Many expressed discontent with Lopez Obrador’s rhetoric against his detractors, such as “fifi” for the people he describes as the conservative elite.
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