Mexican senator Xochitl Galvez announced opposition's presidential candidate, supporters say ‘we will win’

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Mexican senator Xochitl Galvez has been announced as the presidential candidate of the opposition alliance that is set to take on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) in polls next year. Galve's nomination as the presidential candidate of the opposition alliance Frente Amplio por Mexico - or the Broad Front for Mexico was officially announced in a ceremony on Sunday and witnessed her supporters rallying near the Angel of Independence monument in the capital.

Reportedly, Galvez's supporters were heard chanting ‘we are going to win’ while waving flags and banners supporting the alliance and their leader. A supporter donning the colours of Mexico's national flag told Reuters, “She is going to get us all out of the hole, the indigenous people, the poorest, the middle class…And she is going to boost the economy." While speaking about her nomination as the opposition's presidential candidate, Galvez said she received it ‘with great pride’.

The Mexican leader first made the remarks in an indigenous language before delivering her speech in Spanish, reported Reuters. Representatives of the coalition, the center-right PAN, the leftist PRD and the once-powerful PRI party - which supported Galvez at the expense of its own challenger, Beatriz Paredes - had called for Galvez's nomination earlier in the week.

Mexico’s politics have undergone significant change since AMLO started his six-year term, with the president successfully taking advantage of the bad reputation that the established parties have in the eyes of many Mexicans. Millions of voters were originally drawn to AMLO for his start in southern politics outside the traditional centers of power and his folksy demeanor, plus his jabs at