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Meet Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the new populist president of Mexico who vowed to sell his official jet and wrote an entire book calling on Trump to 'listen up' by Alexandra Ma on Jul 2, 2018, 6:57 AM Advertisement
 - Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Mexico's presidency in a landslide victory on Sunday night.
- The 64-year-old populist inherits a country plagued with official corruption and violence, and a population increasing disillusioned with the political status quo.
- He campaigned on a platform of ending corruption and poverty and has vowed not to live in Mexico's ornate presidential palace and sell the official jet.
- López Obrador, also known as AMLO, has also described Donald Trump as "erratic and arrogant," but vowed to get along with the US president.
- Scroll down to learn more about Mexico's new president.
SEE ALSO: Mexico's leftist outsider Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins the presidency in a landslide This is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as "AMLO." The 64-year-old emerged as the country's president on Sunday night with around 53% of the vote. 
He grew in a middle-class family in Tabasco state, the son of a petroleum merchant during Mexico's oil boom. His friends at the time thought he too would become a businessman, but he chose to become a political activist and a human rights lawyer fighting against big oil companies in his 20s instead. 
On December 1, he will take over from Enrique Peña Nieto, who leaves the presidency with a mere 17% approval rating, and who clashed with Donald Trump over trade and the proposed US-Mexico border wall.  Mexico presidents are limited to one six-year term, called a sexenio, so Peña Nieto did not run against López Obrador this year. Read more about Enrique Peña Nieto
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