Corruption video dents Mexico City mayor's popularity
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The popularity of Mexico's leading presidential contender has plummeted following the broadcast of clandestine videos showing his allies discussing bribes or stuffing dollars into a briefcase, a poll showed.
Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has cultivated an image as an honest, austere populist who lives in a middle-class apartment and travels in an economy car.
In one video, one of the mayor's closest allies was recorded on videotape stuffing his briefcase and suit pockets with dollar bills pulled from a businessman's paper bag.
The portion of people who described Lopez Obrador as honest fell from 59 percent before the video broadcasts to 30 percent after, according to a nationwide poll published Friday by the Mexican newspaper Reforma.
The poll surveyed 500 adults by telephone Thursday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points
Asked whether they would vote for Lopez Obrador as president in 2006, 37 percent said they would have before before the videos, while 24 percent said they would now. - AP
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