Mexico will almost certainly have its first female president in 2024, after the governing Morena party and the opposition coalition both chose women as their candidates.
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was named Morena’s candidate on Wednesday, despite runner-up Marcelo Ebrard’s last-minute denouncement of the process and demand for it to be redone.
Sheinbaum is a climate scientist-turned-politician who was widely believed to be the preferred choice of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador who is unable to run again.
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Gálvez is a businesswoman who became a senator in 2018 and has seized media attention with her aspirational story of growing up with an Indigenous father and mestizo mother in Hidalgo state, before working her way through public university and into business and politics.
Crazy! Just read this morning that Mexico descriminalized abortion in the whole country and now this! As a Mexican, I am kind of proud.
Mexico has always had some of the highest number of women in their legislature compared to the rest of the world.
It’s kind of surprising it took this long.
(Mexican too) is that right? I didn’t know that, I’m always kinda out of the loop about most things.
I just read it here on lemmy.
I don’t know those two, but the idea of a scientist as president sounds awesome.
The idea sounds great, but this person is not so. She is just a puppet to the current president
Among other things, this scientist has neglected mexicos city subway causing several accidents and failures.
Friendly reminder that having a woman president doesnt mean things will be different, and I really doubt they will.
For starters, one of them is partially responsible for the colapse of a school causing the death of 26 people and has left México city fall into disrepair for the last 5 years.
The other one is a demagogue who says she will fix the country because “she is diferent”, following the steps of our current president by fueling the “us vs them” rethoric he started/boosted.I’m getting Peña Bots vibes from your comment.
Peña es un pendejo títere del pri que solo vino a calentar la silla.
Si quieres discutir este tema usa argumentos. Tu intento de insultarme trae una vibra de chayoteroLmao.
Did some wikipedia sleuthing on their politics.
Gálvez seems to have jumped from a conservative right-winger party to a progressive socdem/demsoc (wikipedia lists both) one and is running as an independent.
Sheinbaums background is in the progressive socdem/demsoc one
Right wing in mexico is not as extreme as the one in the US, though (even then I don’t like them), but what needs to be clear is that although the current party in position is very left (which is great) it’s not really progressive other than in labor areas. I don’t like sheinbaum specifically and I think morena could do better than her or the current president as it has shown from their legislative branch but politics in Mexico right now are very weird.
I agree with you on most points, but also consider PAN as the dollar store republicans, just not as open.
The current president’s party grew so big that all other opposition parties are allying
Looks like I’m moving to Mexico.
Oh, phew! I first read that as “Mexico to set on fire first female president in 2024” Congrats Mexico. (For the female president, not the imaginary fire)
Yeah but are they going to be good presidents? That’s all that matter in the end
I heard this same story before in the US in 2016. It doesn’t matter what the polls say, you have to assume that your candidate is actually behind in the race and they’re going to lose unless you do everything you can do right now to help them win.
