Mexico: AMLO Closes Campaign Poised for Likely Victory

Mexican Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, better known as AMLO, is poised to win the presidency of Mexico, according to the most recent polls done for El Pais.

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Statistical analysis of poll results gives AMLO a 97 percent chance of being elected president. Ricardo Anaya has a two percent chance and Jose Antonio Meade has less than one percent.

AMLO has around 49 percent of voter intention for this Sunday, substantially higher than his rivals, with Anaya at only 27 percent and Antonio Meade at 21 percent.

In Mexico City's Aztec Stadium, AMLO's campaign is celebrating its end with AMLOfest, with thousands in attendance for concerts and performances.

“We are about to begin a phase of transformation in the history of Mexico, to fulfill the dreams of Mexicans and our ancestors... We remember all those who over time who have fought in social movements. We remember campesinos, workers, teachers, human rights defenders and fighters of other causes,” AMLO said to a crowd of thousands of cheering supporters, after walking through a crowd, giving hugs and selfies.

"It will be a peaceful transformation, but a deep one... Nobody be scared of the word radical, which comes from the word "the root." And it will be a transformation that gets at the roots."

AMLO has made anti-corruption, which he says is exacerbating social inequality, a cornerstone of his campaign.

“We are going to end this cancer that is destroying the country. We are going to destroy corruption!”

As a candidate, AMLO and the Morena coalition has managed to break the confines of a political system long dominated by institutional parties, particularly the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

"I am the oldest candidate, but the young people, with their rebelliousness, imagination and freshness, know that we represent the new. The young people know that we represent modernity," AMLO said.

Commonly known as AMLO, Lopez Obrador has bounced back from two presidential election defeats, two gubernatorial losses and a 2013 heart attack to defy his critics.

Born into a family of modest means in the southeastern state of Tabasco, Lopez Obrador worked in the 1970s for the state's indigenous affairs bureau.

Once his bastions were across the south. Now, however, he has extended his support into the richer north.