The head of government of Mexico City resigned from her post this week with the stated goal of becoming the candidate of the Morena party and becoming the country’s first female president. Sheinbaum, who has led the destinies of the Mexican capital for the past five years, has the support of President Manuel López Obrador, an advantage over the other opponents of his party, but an important brake on voters who would see her as a replica of the president. .
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Sheinbaum left her position as head of government to register for the internal elections of the Morena party (National Renewal Movement), that of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in which she rebounds as a favorite in the preliminary polls for the 2024 presidential candidate The other candidates, former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto, and Ricardo Monreal, president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate of the Republic, arrive behind the also doctor in physics.
And it is that it would not only be a favorite for the party, among political circles Sheinbaum is considered the favorite of President Obrador, something that according to the former secretary of foreign relations of Mexico, Jorge Castañeda, could play against him, because “he is going to face a great challenge when trying to build her own political personality, because of the enormous shadow of López Obrador, and because of the need that she will find to be sheltered by López Obrador, first, to be the candidate of Morena, and then to be a winning candidate.
Sheimbaum has been a great defender of Obrador’s government project and has become an important political figure in the country… Now, her challenge, according to herself, is to be the first woman to hold the position of president in the country’s history , a perspective that raises many questions because, according to Castañeda, “we do not know how the electorate will react to the prospect of a female president,” who also observes that this has already happened in other countries in the region such as “Chile, Argentina, Brazil “among many others but “not in Mexico”
For Castañeda, the influence of López Obrador in the 2024 elections will have great weight, as happened in the elections in the State of Mexico on June 4, where President Obrador’s coalition took 100 years of leadership from the opposition, a victory that According to Jorge Castañeda in Mexico, it is called a “State election” because he emphasizes, “the government, the State, fully entered in favor of a candidate (Delfina Gómez, from Morena, winner of the election) and against another candidate (Alejandra del Moral, candidate of a coalition that included the PRI, PAN, PRD, among other opposition formations). “López Obrador is going to be a very important factor in the next elections, warns Castañeda
Although it remains to be seen who the final candidates for these elections will be, according to analysts such as former Foreign Minister Castañeda, the 2024 elections are already announced to be polarized, between the political forces that support López Obrador and those who oppose him.
