MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The Mexico City mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said Wednesday that the country is preparing to be governed by the left.
A member of the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, Lopez Obrador said that the leftist governments in Mexico "have done good projects."
Lopez Obrador recalled leftist President Lazaro Cardenas, who ruled Mexico from 1934 to 1940, calling him "the best president of the twentieth century in Mexico."
"For a long time, every time the left has governed it has done good deeds," the mayor said. The left can govern Mexico because, "the people are very united."
According to opinion polls, Lopez Obrador is favored to win the presidential elections in 2006 at the end of President Vicente Fox's term.
Lopez Obrador has remained popular despite being mired in a scandal involving crooked sales of city property earlier in the year. The incident sparked a long-running exchange of bitter words between Lopez Obrador and Fox.
