Lillian Briseño Senosiain, researcher at the National School of Education and Humanities at Tecnológico de Monterrey: “Although all polls estimated that Claudia Sheinbaum, Morena’s candidate, would win the elections on June 2, the way in which she overwhelmed the opposition was a surprise, even for the most optimistic of her followers. In the end, not only did she obtain close to 60 percent of the votes for the presidency, but the president’s party has obtained a qualified majority in the Chamber of Deputies and is two seats away from also achieving it in the Senate. President López Obrador therefore has Congress on his side to enact changes in the Constitution. With these results, the well-known division of powers, key in a democracy, will be affected since the legislature will be totally subordinate to the executive. With this composition of Congress, the constitutional reforms that President López Obrador has promoted during his government will be able to be voted on in…”
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