MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s leftist Morena party on Monday made eradicating corruption the centerpiece of its platform as its leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador runs for the presidency in next year’s elections. Thousands of Morena’s most fervent supporters packed the capital’s National Auditorium to watch party bigwigs vote unanimously in support of the plan for governing if Lopez Obrador wins. “We have in our hands the possibility of ending corruption,” Lopez Obrador said. He called for the current renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to be suspended until a new government is in place. Lopez Obrador, the former Mexico City mayor making his third bid for the presidency, did not directly address NAFTA.

Source: National Post November 20, 2017 22:16 UTC