More than 20 candidates for local office have been murdered in recent weeks. Sheinbaum has 53% of support compared to 36% for Gálvez, according to the latest polls. Congressional positions and nine of 32 governorships are also in dispute.
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Mexicans are already voting to choose their political future. A future that will most likely be led by a woman. They do so after a campaign marked by electoral violencewith the murder of candidates and others who resigned when they felt threatened. More than 20 candidates for local positions have been murdered in recent weeks, According to the government. NGOs report thirty victims. One of the most impactful crimes occurred on Wednesday, when cameras recorded the moment in which a hitman shot the head of Alfredo Cabrera, candidate for mayor of Coyuca de Benítez (south).
Two women are vying for the presidency with a third candidate completing the offer. Supported by the popularity of the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, is the favorite to govern the largest Spanish-speaking country and the twelfth largest economy in the world until 2030. Physicist and former mayor of Mexico City (2018-2023) of Jewish origin, she surpasses her rival from her opposition front in voting intentions, Xochitl Galvezsenator and businesswoman of indigenous roots, also 61 years old.
According to the latest polls published before Sunday’s session, Sheinbaum has 53% of support compared to 36% for Gálvez. In a distant third place is Jorge Álvarez Máynez (11%), 38-year-old former centrist deputy.
Some 100 million Mexicans – out of a population of 129 million – are authorized to vote in this single-round election that is won by a simple majority. Just over 20,000 positions, including Congress and nine of 32 governorships, are in dispute.
Sheinbaum VS. Galvez
Sheinbaum, whom those around her define as a woman of courage and discipline, He based his campaign on the promise of preserving López Obrador’s legacy (AMLO), first left-wing president of Mexico whose approval is around 66%. In Mexico there is no reelection.
During his six years in office, 8.9 million people escaped poverty, a situation in which more than a third of the population still lives, according to official figures.
For her part, Gálvez, born in a humble home and who became a successful businesswoman in the technology sector, focused her campaign on security recoveryAMLO’s Achilles heel, whom he accuses of tolerance towards the cartels.
“We are going to bring life where death walks today (…), we are going to bring freedom where today an authoritarian government wants to impose its decisions,” he promised. Gálvez is backed by a coalition of the traditional parties PAN, PRD and PRI (which she governed for seven decades until 2000).
Mexico is trapped in a spiral of violence since a military offensive was launched in 2006 against the cartels, which obtain millions in income from the trafficking of synthetic drugs to the neighboring United States, where they supply weapons.
Since then the country has accumulated more than 450 thousand homicides and more than 100 thousand missingaccording to official data.
Challenges for the new president of Mexico
The expansion of organized crime, which thrives on other crimes such as extortion, “is the most intimidating problem that Sheinbaum will have to face” if she is elected, says Michael Shifter, a researcher at the Inter-American Dialogue analysis center, based in Washington, in statements to the AFP agency.
The new president will also have the challenge of maintain the social programs in which AMLO bases its popularity, with a fiscal deficit of 5.9% and low growth (an average of 0.8% during the six-year term).
Another challenge will be the complex relationship with The United States, Mexico’s main trading partner, Shifter points out.
In these elections, the left also seeks to expand the simple majority it has in Congress to approve a controversial justice reform, and will try to retain the mayor’s office of Mexico City, its bastion.
Mexicans are already voting to choose their political future. A future that will most likely be led by a woman. They do so after a campaign marked by electoral violencewith the murder of candidates and others who resigned when they felt threatened. More than 20 candidates for local positions have been murdered in recent weeks, According to the government. NGOs report thirty victims. One of the most impactful crimes occurred on Wednesday, when cameras recorded the moment in which a hitman shot the head of Alfredo Cabrera, candidate for mayor of Coyuca de Benítez (south).
Two women are vying for the presidency with a third candidate completing the offer. Supported by the popularity of the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, is the favorite to govern the largest Spanish-speaking country and the twelfth largest economy in the world until 2030. Physicist and former mayor of Mexico City (2018-2023) of Jewish origin, she surpasses her rival from her opposition front in voting intentions, Xochitl Galvezsenator and businesswoman of indigenous roots, also 61 years old.
According to the latest polls published before Sunday’s session, Sheinbaum has 53% of support compared to 36% for Gálvez. In a distant third place is Jorge Álvarez Máynez (11%), 38-year-old former centrist deputy.
Some 100 million Mexicans – out of a population of 129 million – are authorized to vote in this single-round election that is won by a simple majority. Just over 20,000 positions, including Congress and nine of 32 governorships, are in dispute.
Sheinbaum VS. Galvez
Sheinbaum, whom those around her define as a woman of courage and discipline, He based his campaign on the promise of preserving López Obrador’s legacy (AMLO), first left-wing president of Mexico whose approval is around 66%. In Mexico there is no reelection.
During his six years in office, 8.9 million people escaped poverty, a situation in which more than a third of the population still lives, according to official figures.
For her part, Gálvez, born in a humble home and who became a successful businesswoman in the technology sector, focused her campaign on security recoveryAMLO’s Achilles heel, whom he accuses of tolerance towards the cartels.
“We are going to bring life where death walks today (…), we are going to bring freedom where today an authoritarian government wants to impose its decisions,” he promised. Gálvez is backed by a coalition of the traditional parties PAN, PRD and PRI (which she governed for seven decades until 2000).
Mexico is trapped in a spiral of violence since a military offensive was launched in 2006 against the cartels, which obtain millions in income from the trafficking of synthetic drugs to the neighboring United States, where they supply weapons.
Since then the country has accumulated more than 450 thousand homicides and more than 100 thousand missingaccording to official data.
Challenges for the new president of Mexico
The expansion of organized crime, which thrives on other crimes such as extortion, “is the most intimidating problem that Sheinbaum will have to face” if she is elected, says Michael Shifter, a researcher at the Inter-American Dialogue analysis center, based in Washington, in statements to the AFP agency.
The new president will also have the challenge of maintain the social programs in which AMLO bases its popularity, with a fiscal deficit of 5.9% and low growth (an average of 0.8% during the six-year term).
Another challenge will be the complex relationship with The United States, Mexico’s main trading partner, Shifter points out.
In these elections, the left also seeks to expand the simple majority it has in Congress to approve a controversial justice reform, and will try to retain the mayor’s office of Mexico City, its bastion.
Mexicans are already voting to choose their political future. A future that will most likely be led by a woman. They do so after a campaign marked by electoral violencewith the murder of candidates and others who resigned when they felt threatened. More than 20 candidates for local positions have been murdered in recent weeks, According to the government. NGOs report thirty victims. One of the most impactful crimes occurred on Wednesday, when cameras recorded the moment in which a hitman shot the head of Alfredo Cabrera, candidate for mayor of Coyuca de Benítez (south).
Two women are vying for the presidency with a third candidate completing the offer. Supported by the popularity of the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, is the favorite to govern the largest Spanish-speaking country and the twelfth largest economy in the world until 2030. Physicist and former mayor of Mexico City (2018-2023) of Jewish origin, she leads her rival from her opposition front in voting intentions, Xochitl Galvezsenator and businesswoman of indigenous roots, also 61 years old.
According to the latest polls published before Sunday’s session, Sheinbaum has 53% of support compared to 36% for Gálvez. In a distant third place is Jorge Álvarez Máynez (11%), 38-year-old former centrist deputy.
Some 100 million Mexicans – out of a population of 129 million – are authorized to vote in this single-round election that is won by a simple majority. Just over 20,000 positions, including Congress and nine of 32 governorships, are in dispute.
Sheinbaum VS. Galvez
Sheinbaum, whom those around her define as a woman of courage and discipline, He based his campaign on the promise of preserving López Obrador’s legacy (AMLO), first left-wing president of Mexico whose approval is around 66%. In Mexico there is no reelection.
During his six years in office, 8.9 million people escaped poverty, a situation in which more than a third of the population still lives, according to official figures.
For her part, Gálvez, born in a humble home and who became a successful businesswoman in the technology sector, focused her campaign on security recoveryAMLO’s Achilles heel, whom he accuses of tolerance towards the cartels.
“We are going to bring life where death walks today (…), we are going to bring freedom where today an authoritarian government wants to impose its decisions,” he promised. Gálvez is backed by a coalition of the traditional parties PAN, PRD and PRI (which she governed for seven decades until 2000).
Mexico is trapped in a spiral of violence since a military offensive was launched in 2006 against the cartels, which obtain millions in income from the trafficking of synthetic drugs to the neighboring United States, where they supply weapons.
Since then the country has accumulated more than 450 thousand homicides and more than 100 thousand missingaccording to official data.
Challenges for the new president of Mexico
The expansion of organized crime, which thrives on other crimes such as extortion, “is the most intimidating problem that Sheinbaum will have to face” if she is elected, says Michael Shifter, a researcher at the Inter-American Dialogue analysis center, based in Washington, in statements to the AFP agency.
The new president will also have the challenge of maintain the social programs in which AMLO bases its popularity, with a fiscal deficit of 5.9% and low growth (an average of 0.8% during the six-year term).
Another challenge will be the complex relationship with The United States, Mexico’s main trading partner, Shifter points out.
In these elections, the left also seeks to expand the simple majority it has in Congress to approve a controversial justice reform, and will try to retain the mayor’s office of Mexico City, its bastion.
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