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López Portillo was the only official candidate in the 1976 presidential election, being the only president in recent Mexican history to win an election unopposed.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"16 June 1920","date":"1920-06-16"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315613#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Mexico City","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1489"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315613#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"17 February 2004","date":"2004-02-17"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315613#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Mexico 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This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Jose Lopez Portillo new.jpg — Dutch National Archives, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.","cite":"\"José López Portillo\". DigiNepal. Last updated 9 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/jose-lopez-portillo. Retrieved 9 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-09T07:56:11Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-09","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/jose-lopez-portillo","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/jose-lopez-portillo","ne":null}}