Mexican leftist widens double-digit lead for presidency: poll

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador extended his double-digit opinion poll lead over his closest rival ahead of Mexico’s July 1 presidential election, a voter survey showed on Monday.

Lopez Obrador claimed 50 percent of voter support, up from 46 percent in a May survey by the same pollster, in a poll published in newspaper El Financiero. Right-left coalition leader Ricardo Anaya followed in second place, dropping slightly from 26 to 24 percent of voter support.

The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)’s Jose Antonio Meade remained third.