Mexicans Vote on Whether President Stays or Goes

Mexico's President Andres Manuel López Obrador shows his identification card after voting in a national referendum on whether he should end his six-year term barely midway through or continue to the end, outside his polling station in Mexico City, on April 10, 2022. Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo

MEXICO CITY—Mexicans voted Sunday on whether their president should end his six-year term barely midway through or continue to the end.

Strangely, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the one who pushed for the first-ever referendum of its kind in Mexico.