03/22/2018 Reuters MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The opposition leftist leading the race to win Mexico’s July 1 presidential election has extended his advantage, while the government’s candidate is now nudging into second place, a newspaper poll showed on Thursday. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, saw his effective lead rise to 42 percent support, according to the survey in business newspaper El Financiero, up from 38 percent in from the paper’s prior poll in February. Meanwhile, backing for former finance minister Jose Antonio Meade, candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), increased by two percentage points to 24 percent, the survey of 1,200 voters conducted from March 9-14 showed. Support for Ricardo Anaya, the former chairman of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) who leads a right-left coalition, fell by four percentage points to 23 percent. Read more...
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