Mexicans on Sunday vote on whether their president should stay in office, in an unprecedented referendum he argues is vital to confirm his democratic mandate but which the opposition casts as a costly distraction from the country's real problems.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a pugnacious leftist who has governed since December 2018, is the architect of the first so-called recall referendum in modern Mexico, and critics and supporters alike expect him to win easily.
"If I don't have the support of the people, I can't continue governing," he said of the vote earlier this year. "A ruler who does not have the support of the people is like a dry leaf. Moral authority is required to have political authority.
Two-thirds of Mexicans surveyed in a poll by newspaper El Financiero earlier this month said they wanted the president to stay in office. One third wanted him out.
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