Lopez Obrador Has Won The Mexican Presidency

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador talks to reporters as he departs after casting his ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Mexico City, Mexico, July 1, 2018. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Daily Mail: Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins Mexican presidential election setting the stage for confrontation with Trump over migration and border

* With polls closed, Lopez Obrador is projected as next president of Mexico
* Rivals of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warn he could set country back
* He has lambasted Trump's policies and said all have the right to immigrate to US
* Trump congratulates and says 'I look very much forward to working with him'

With polls closed, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is the presumed winner of the Mexican presidential election.

Lopez Obrador, better known by his initials AMLO, will be the first candidate from the left-wing political coalition Juntos Haremos Historia to hold the Mexican presidency after Sunday's election.

One exit poll by Parametria showed Lopez Obrador with a handy lead of 20 percentage points, winning between 53 percent and 59 percent of the vote, far ahead of his two main rivals from Mexico's traditional parties.

His rivals, José Antonio Meade of the long-dominant centrist PRI party and Ricardo Anaya of the center-right PAN, both conceded the election shortly after polls closed.

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