Mexico election: voters head to polls as leftist Amlo expected to cruise to victory

Election comes against a backdrop of widespread exasperation with political sleaze and soaring violence

• Mexico election: the candidates, the stakes and the key issues

Millions of Mexicans will head to the polls on Sunday in a watershed election that is almost certain to see a silver-haired leftist who has vowed to take on the country’s corrupt ruling elite elected president of Latin America’s second largest economy.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the 64-year-old former mayor of Mexico City and a friend of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has put promises to eradicate corruption and fight poverty at the heart of his campaign and is expected to cruise to victory.

The election comes against a backdrop of widespread exasperation with political sleaze and soaring violence, with Mexico on track to register its most violent year in recent history in 2018 with more than 13,000 murders already committed.

Related: 'We're in the abyss': how despair in Mexico set 'Amlo' on verge of presidency

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