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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.

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.

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[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] blujan@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] victron@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with you on most points, but also consider PAN as the dollar store republicans, just not as open.

Didn't the ruling party just decriminalize abortion? That's pretty good and progressive.

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

A quick Google search says it was the Mexican Supreme Court.

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The current president's party grew so big that all other opposition parties are allying

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