Mexico Ruling Party Flees Congress Building Amid Farmer Protests

(Bloomberg) -- President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s party planned on Thursday to hold a lower house session on the other side of Mexico City after protesting farmers blocked the chamber, preventing a vote on the 2020 spending bill.“We’re on our way to an alternate site,” Mario Delgado, from Lopez Obrador’s Morena party, said in a video on Facebook as he rode in a bus filled with his lawmakers. “Here all of the Morena parliamentary group is united and ready!