Help! Looking for jobs, money and justice, Mexicans petition new president


Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives for a meeting with new members of the Senate and lawmakers of his Party Morena in Mexico City, Mexico July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Every day, dozens of people arrive to present Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with scribbled notes and requests written on napkins at the office where he has installed himself before he assumes the presidency of Mexico in December.

Job requests, pleas for assistance and demands for justice are handed in through the railings of the white and red corner building to members of team Lopez Obrador, a leftist who won office with a landslide victory on July 1.

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