Mexico City, July 1: Voting is underway in Mexico to elect a fresh Parliament, along with a new President. On the voting day, pollsters said Mexico is looking towards the Left as surveys from the ground indicated a massive wave in favour of socialist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, also referred to as 'AMLO'.

AMLO succeeded in projecting himself as an outsider and an "anti-establishment" candidate who could weed out the widespread corruption from the Mexican polity, while re-instilling a sense of nationalism while being "pushed around" by an aggressive United States under President Donald Trump.

Obrador, though being referred to as an outsider, has not been averse to electoral politics, as well as governance. In the past, he has served as the Mexico City Mayor after winning a tightly contested poll for the same. On account of his critically acclaimed work as the city's mayor, he ran for the President in 2006 and 2012 -- but fall way short of the majority mark in both the elections.

Pre-election surveys, however, have majorly predicted a rout for the incumbent Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The centrist party's public perception suffered a "fatal blow" after President Enrique Pena Nieto was levelled by graft charges by the country's federal investigators.

"The new president of Mexico will have moral and political authority to demand everyone behaves with integrity and make honesty a priority as a way of life," Obrador said in his campaign finale in a soccer stadium in the capital on Wednesday.

Apart from Obrador, other key candidates in the fray are: conservative party nominee Ricardo Anaya, ruling party candidate José Antonio Meade, and independent Jaime Rodríguez. The results will be out shortly after the polling body begins the counting of votes post the completion of elections.

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