Poverty is worse in the region than in other places, and voters are more open to the leftist ideas of Mr. López Obrador and his Party of the Democratic Revolution.
Many analysts predict the PP will join forces with Ciudadanos to govern, with Rajoy hinting earlier this week that his party would be open to the possibility of an alliance to prevent a coalition between leftist parties.
The leftist leader said Assange, who has been in the building for nine weeks, was welcome to stay there "indefinitely," but also said he was open to discussions.
He had just handed out eleven mock awards to leftists who expressed insufficient happiness or open unhappiness at the news.
Most of them belong to leftists or Republican sympathizers.
It quickly brought together supporters with widely different ideologies, ranging from Islamists to leftists.
The experiment has proved seductive to leftists across the world.
Although Ennahda suffered under Ben Ali's regime, its leaders developed a tolerant discourse and managed to open up to moderate secular and leftist political groups.
He aimed to prise open classical leftist ideas such as Marxism to the marginal, the aberrant; in this sense his project had affinities with the work of Raymond Williams, EP Thompson, Stuart Hall and the 1970s feminists in Britain.
They regularly lent support to leftist parties and insurgencies.
