Today, Sunday 2 June, Mexico faces the most impressive elections in its history, in a climate of very strong tension. Nearly 100 million citizens will choose over 20,000 public offices: the future president of the Republic, all 128 senators and 500 deputies, 8 governors, the head of government of Mexico City and hundreds of mayors and city councilors. The political heir of the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as Amlo, is a super favorite: Claudia Sheinbaumcandidate of the coalition Follow Haciendo Historia (Let’s continue making history.)
In the polls, Sheinbaum has a twenty-point lead over Xochitl Gálvezcandidate of the coalition Strength and Courage (Strength and Heart), which brings together three traditional parties – Institutional Revolutionary Party, National Action Party and Democratic Revolutionary Party – once bitter rivals and now united with the aim of dethroning the Moraine, the party created by Amlo. The candidate of is trailing in the polls Citizen Movement, Jorge Álvarez Máynez. Mexico is therefore preparing to choose a female president.
They are also the bloodiest elections in Mexican history. Overall, there were 749 victims of political violence in 2023-2024, of which 231 were murdered. Thirty-six candidates were killed during the election campaign, mostly at municipal level where the presence of organized crime is strongest.
Tension is very high in the states of Guerrero, Chiapas and Puebla where the two main drug cartels, Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación have taken control of large areas, competing for territory. AND Amlo’s biggest failure who, according to the opposition, has failed in his six years of presidency to slow down the advance of organized crime and its infiltration into the institutions.
