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December 20, 2023

What Factors Will Influence Mexico’s Presidential Race?

Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum (pictured) is leading her rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, in polls ahead of Mexico’s presidential election in June. // File Photo: Government of Mexico City.

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Rodrigo Montes de Oca, a research scholar at the Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico: “Recently, López Obrador and his party have promoted the idea that Mexico’s election has already been decided. They also claim that their goal now is to have a supermajority in Congress to be able to amend the constitution. This idea seems to have permeated Mexican society, the media and even serious thinkers at home and abroad. Many have even given up thinking that the election is still to be decided—having the desired effect of discouraging the opposition vote. That defeatist position, however, is questionable. First, the campaign is barely beginning. Second, the opposition coalition has held together, and their candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, remains…”

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