If he becomes president, this man will turn Mexico’s White House into a public park

MEXICO CITY — If Andrés Manuel López Obrador has his way, Mexican political life will soon get a whole lot stingier.
The front-runner to be the next president of Mexico says he will not live in Los Pinos, the lush and landscaped presidential palace, but turn the grounds into a public park.

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He says he will not set foot on the $218 million presidential airplane — calling it an offensive “palace for the skies”— but sell the entire fleet of government planes and helicopters.
His salary will be less than half that of the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto. And the “luxurious” pensions of former presidents and their teams? López Obrador will slash them.
“Not even Obama gets that kind of pension,” he has said.
In Mexico, a country famously stained by corruption, López Obrador is running as Mr. Clean. This year, the political stars have aligned to his benefit — he has a commanding lead in the polls ahead of the July 1 vote — primarily because of outrage over corruption.
López Obrador has been a fixture on the Mexican left for decades, mostly as an agitator against the dominant parties and political elites, who fear his economic agenda and his tendency to rally the masses for his causes. López Obrador burnished his reputation for austerity during a stint as Mexico City mayor more than a decade ago, living in a modest apartment and driving a Nissan sedan — a stark contrast to many top Mexican politicians who live in mansions. His strategy for fighting corruption now, as then, is essentially to lead by example.
His administration, he says, will punish the fraudulent, slash perks of power and recoup the $25 billion in government funds he estimates is stolen every year, funneling it into development projects and social programs for the poor.
In a speech earlier this year, López Obrador said he wanted to “moralize public life.”
“We are going to get rid of the luxuries of government,” he said.

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If he becomes president, this man will turn Mexico’s White House into a public park

If he becomes president, this man will turn Mexico’s White House into a public park

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