Approval for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rose from 62.7 percent to 67....
FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech during an event in Badiraguato, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, Mexico February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo
As Lopez Obrador nears his first 100 days in office, he joined Mexico’s President Ernesto Zedillo, who in February 1995 saw approval for his way of governing rise from 38 percent to 42 percent, the survey showed, though it added that Zedillo “afterward suffered a great fall.”The current president’s near-70 percent approval most closely matched the record of President Vicente Fox’s approval rate in February 2001, which began at 80.
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