For someone with a history of rejecting election results, it was perhaps inevitable that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador would ignore the obvious and refuse to concede that his administration was given a sharp wake-up call in the midterms held on Sunday, June 6.
Despite seeing his Morena Party coalition’s majority in the federal Chamber of Deputies shrink from more than two-thirds to just over half, in addition to some devastating losses in local races in Mexico City districts – his traditional stronghold – Lopez Obrador said his program of costly public works, and prioritizing the needs of the country’s poorest citizens above all else, often referred to as the Fourth Transformation, or 4T, would continue unabated. He brushed aside the loss of a two-thirds majority in the lower house, even suggesting that he might ally with his old nemesis, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), should he need the required votes to push through constitutional reforms.
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