2024 will be an eventful year across the world, with presidential elections in Mexico and the United States occupying many journalists’ minds in these parts, and the depressing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza likely to continue with no clear end in sight.
On Sunday, June 2, Mexico’s voters will elect a new president to serve a six-year term, all 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies and all 128 members of the Senate. Voters in all of Mexico’s 32 states, including Jalisco, will hold elections for governors, state legislatures, mayors and municipal councils (or one or two of the three).
The Mexican presidential race will be groundbreaking in that the two leading candidates are women, meaning that it’s odds-on this country will usher in its first-ever female president later in the year.
Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will represent Juntos Haremos Historia (Together Let’s Keep Making History) left-of-center coalition comprising the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the Labor Party (PT) and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), while senator Xóchitl Gálvez takes the mantle for the centrist Frente Amplio por México (Broad Front for Mexico) coalition formed of the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). It is still not clear whether another, smaller national party, the Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), will field its own candidate, or team up with the centrist alliance.
Although Sheinbaum vows she has no intention of being a clone of the sitting president, she will continue to promote Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s so-called Fourth Transformation, the term he has coined to encapsulate his promise to end the privileged abuses and corruption that he says plagued Mexico for decades.
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