
Six years after losing a second presidential election in a row, and five years after founding the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), the political party which he personally micromanages, Mexican leftist leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador has roared back to life. In Sunday’s election, he and his allies won the country’s presidency, both houses of Congress and at least five governorships — a stunning turnaround for a man who, just half a decade ago, faced political extinction.