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The man who would be president
Nov 13th 2003 | MEXICO CITY
From The Economist print edition

Mexico City's can-do leftist mayor is the early favourite for the presidency in 2006. Can he last the distance?

FOR political junkies, there is only one place to be at dawn in the capital city: at the mayor's daily press conference. At 6.15am every day, Andrés Manuel López Obrador steps in front of the cameras in the mayor's offices. About an hour later he strides out of the room to begin a working day that usually lasts until 10pm. The message is that this is a man who cannot wait to get behind his desk to serve the people. And the early start ensures that it is Mr López Obrador who sets the city's daily political agenda, and often that of the nation, on the breakfast news shows."

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