Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico's next president, marking a significant political shift. Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, has a progressive agenda and is a protégé of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). The ruling Morena party, which she represents, secured a two-thirds majority in the lower house with 372 seats but fell short of a supermajority in the Senate, with 83 out of 128 seats. This prevents them from making constitutional changes without broader support. Investors are concerned about potential constitutional reforms that could affect market conditions and democracy, causing the peso to sink. Sheinbaum has promised to prioritize judicial reforms, grants for schoolchildren and women, a ban on reelection, and changes to the public-worker pension system. AMLO has stated he will not pressure Sheinbaum to rush these reforms. The new congress will convene on September 1, and Sheinbaum will take office on October 1.
In a speech from the National Palace, Mexico's President-Elect promised to try to prioritize a handful of reforms that would alter the judiciary, provide schoolkids and women grants, ban reelection to office and change the public-worker pension system. https://t.co/wuCRnlSjbo
While @Claudiashein’s landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential election may seem like a triumph of democracy, it represents a major step backward, writes @EnriqueKrauze. https://t.co/eIv5X2qyBf
Mexico’s peso sank after President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said a proposed reform of the nation’s judicial system would be among the first to be discussed in congress https://t.co/EWSKSsc64E
Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum holds her first press conference, in the gilded hall where AMLO has held more than 500 morning news conferences in the past 5.5 years https://t.co/RN9COFoyis
Mexico president says will not push successor to rush constitutional reforms https://t.co/vOidJ3zv0g https://t.co/nPj64sgotf
Mexico’s ruling party will keep the market in mind as it moves to discuss constitutional reforms, Senate Majority Leader @RicardoMonrealA says. Monreal, who was key to passing USMCA in a senate with a Morena supermajority, spoke with @mayaaverbuch. https://t.co/rQzxapH0kr
Mexico’s ruling party will keep the market in mind as it moves to discuss constitutional reforms, Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal said in an interview. https://t.co/v4HzPrX36L
Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum did not play up her impressive Jewish leftist pedigree in her campaign. The story of her grandfather — who participated in the Communist parties of Lithuania, Cuba, and then Mexico — provides some clue as to why. https://t.co/pVKRYKRiYM
The Right attacked Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum for being a “Jewish foreigner” and communist during her campaign. Her grandfather and his brother, emigrants from Lithuania, were both of these things. https://t.co/pVKRYKQL9e
Mexican President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum’s coalition obtained two-thirds of the seats in the lower house and nearly two-thirds in the senate, the leader of the ruling party said on Sunday https://t.co/2Krii7s6tC via @bpolitics @michaelob_mex @mayaaverbuch @schen37 @vcavalie
In addition to #Mexico’s domestic challenges, I also discuss the bilateral and international hurdles faced by the incoming Morena president in my recent newsletter, “Mexico: Historic.” https://t.co/g2CTckcW6d
⚠️ MEXICO PRESIDENT LOPEZ OBRADOR: WILL NOT ASK INCOMING PRESIDENT TO HURRY PASSAGE OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMSS
AMLO's party has accepted what Bloomberg first reported last Monday: AMLO and Morena will be JUST shy of the supermajority to change the constitution in the Senate (it has the necessary 2/3 in the lower house) when the next congress is seated in September https://t.co/nUTAgmcJJx
⚠️ HEAD OF MEXICO'S RULING MORENA PARTY SAYS CLEAR THAT MEXICO NEEDS JUDICIAL REFORM, WILL BE DISCUSSED IN CONGRESS -LOCAL MEDIA **HEAD OF MEXICO'S RULING MORENA PARTY SAYS BELIEVES REFORM CAN BRING INVESTOR CERTAINTY -LOCAL MEDIA
⚠️ MEXICO PRESIDENT LOPEZ OBRADOR: GOING TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT SHEINBAUM TO DISCUSS TRANSITION ON MONDAY
.@elpais_america - Five reasons why Sheinbaum won in #Mexico https://t.co/lclz7BYV5Q
Mexico ruling party wins lower house super-majority but falls short in Senate https://t.co/tLytQB95Ma
#Mexico Leftists Won Big. Investors Are Worried. via @nytimes https://t.co/XftPDrP6g5
#Mexico Ruling Party Coalition Just Shy of Supermajority https://t.co/M6h8YK32Wx
Mexico’s new congress will convene on September 1, but President-elect @Claudiashein will take office only on October 1. This leaves @lopezobrador_ with a “September window” to pursue his constitutional reforms, notes @nyuniversity’s @JorgeGCastaneda. https://t.co/aIUMECXWts
With the landslide victory of Claudia Sheinbaum, the protégé of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s democracy is at risk. The ruling Morena party looks likely to approve AMLO’s proposed package of constitutional reforms, which would … https://t.co/hpo44wjmui
Letters to the Editor: Good for Claudia Sheinbaum. But Mexico is no example for the U.S. (via @latimesopinion ) https://t.co/jXbEKG3Yyz
🇲🇽Mexico: Claudia Sheinbaum takes the wheel with bold progressive agenda - New on Cloak & Dagger https://t.co/YzoUU3klk8 https://t.co/HkQRgzO1KN
This is good news for working people of Mexico. “Mexico’s ruling coalition will have 83 seats out of 128 in Senate, Morena party leader Delgado said, fewer than 86 needed to make changes to constitution. The coalition will hold 372 seats out of 500 in the lower house” @business
Mexico ruling party misses Senate super-majority but wins lower house, Morena says https://t.co/kcXLEtxBzL https://t.co/12oUI6aXh7
Final balance of power in congress according to Morena’s president 👇🏼 https://t.co/L9o69R4H4u
Investors fear that Mexico’s next government will bring about constitutional changes that make it harder to operate in the country and which undermine democracy. The fear is well founded https://t.co/rRiH6xorZH 👇
"Mexico's next president is Jewish. This 'strong community' in Arizona feels seen." (via @JRGzzTX) https://t.co/nzGHpTIdKl
"Mexico's next president is Jewish. This 'strong community' in Arizona feels seen." (via @JRGzzTX) https://t.co/nzGHpTIdKl via @azcentral