( Spanish) – Clara Brugada, a member of the ruling Morena party, assumed this Saturday the head of Government of Mexico City for the period 2024-2030, after she won the local elections on June 2 with 51.9% of the votes.
Brugada took office in a ceremony in Congress in the Mexican capital. After the formal ceremony, he plans to celebrate with his supporters outside the Metropolitan Theater and lead a caravan to the Zócalo.
As head of Government, Brugada will be in charge of a city with more than 9 million inhabitants, a figure that places it among the most populated cities in Latin America, not counting the floating population.
Brugada, 61, succeeds Martí Batres, who in June 2023 was chosen to replace Claudia Sheinbaum when she requested leave to leave the position and seek Morena’s presidential candidacy. On June 2, while Brugada won at the local level, Sheinbaum did so at the federal level and took office as president of Mexico on October 1.
Before becoming head of government, Brugada held various positions, first with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which has already lost its registration, and then with Morena.
She was a local and federal representative, substitute senator and mayor of Iztapalapa, the most populated district of Mexico City. During his campaign he promised to address the problems of the country’s capital with measures such as improving mobility and replicating the model of the “Utopías”, community centers that he developed in Iztapalapa.
In one of his first messages after winning the elections, he said that the vote in his favor “is not a blank check” for Morena and the “fourth transformation” that the party promotes, but “the opportunity to govern as it should be, as the people expect.”
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