Mexico set for first female president in 2024 election
Mexico set for first female president in 2024 election
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and senator Xóchitl Gálvez were selected as the candidates for the two major electoral groups
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.
I don't know those two, but the idea of a scientist as president sounds awesome.
Angela Merkel is a famous example of someone who has a doctorate in quantum chemistry and was a researcher before turning to politics.
It helped in some cases. E.g. the first thing the government did when faced with Covid was to ask experts and put it into the hand of the RKI with several people familiar with coronaviruses.
However, in other instances she understood the science and just chose to ignore it because of politics.
Understanding science is good, but you still need to act accordingly.
Ideally a scientist would operate politically on the basis of improving society though objective, measurable and honest actions, however Sheinbaum is corrupt as they come, she's pretty smart but she's basically sold her soul to her party, which was founded by the current Mexican president, who has been dismantling as many autonomous bodies for checks and balances as well as transparency institutions as he can.
Sheinbaum is very likely to win since the president has a 2-3 hour live propaganda show almost every morning where he attacks journalists and the opposition and he makes cringe jokes.
We'll have to see if once she gets executive power she starts acting for the betterment of society or if she continues following AMLO
You're right on the money. She has always failed to distance from AMLO, since he basically appointed her as the Mexico City Mayor to begin with. I really hope, when the time comes, she distances herself from him. Fingers crossed.
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.
I totally agree, but why would a good scientist stop researching?
Also we are speaking about real scientists, not the one mentioned in the article.
What do you mean "real" scientists?
She has a PhD in energy engineering and physics.
why would a good scientist stop researching?
Probably when you start to wonder if all your research is for nothing since nobody seems interested in enacting policy grounded in science.
Crazy! Just read this morning that Mexico descriminalized abortion in the whole country and now this! As a Mexican, I am kind of proud.
(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.
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.
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.
The current president's party grew so big that all other opposition parties are allying
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.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)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
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.
In a matter of months Gálvez has risen to become the candidate of a broad opposition coalition that includes the PAN, PRI and PRD, the country’s three oldest mainstream parties.
Both Sheinbaum and Gálvez were chosen through a series of polls intended to show greater transparency and public participation than in the past, when presidents had the habit of handpicking their successors.
The opposition coalition never conducted the final consultation of the process it set out, because another candidate, Beatriz Paredes, withdrew, thus handing the candidacy to the frontrunner Gálvez.
Ebrard’s very public dissent is also an early sign of the trouble Sheinbaum may face to maintain cohesion within the Morena party once López Obrador leaves power.
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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.
Just like with hillary, switching up the sex of the president is just a ploy to make people think things will be different.
They won't be. Can't wait to see how cozy these candidates get with the cartel.