Probably the same reason the whole party is still around. It would be awesome to get a real input from someone who lives in Mexico (preferably a normal person and not a summer beach home/mansion owner who pretends to live like normal people do), but honestly don't know how likely they are to lurk here on Lemmy....surely there is at least one among us?

My skepticism stems mostly from the "popularity" of former president, supposedly reaching some 80%? Sounds pretty good if it's genuinely true, but it's eerily approaching fabled 90-100% authoritarian levels.

[–] zbb@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Mexican here.

As you say, Mexico is a bit divisive about her, many calling her just a mere puppet of current president López Obrador and worrying about her not doing that much when she was state governor.

And many of her claims about feminism, ecologism, pro-Palestina positioning, are a bit weird, in respect of her former position and the little things she did in regard those.

What worries me personally rn is that legislative power will also be at her mercy. If she wants to do any change to Constitution (as Lopez Obrador already had tried many times), little to nothing will be able to stop her. For better or for worse.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's that last part about she changing the constitution? How could no one be able to stop her?

[–] zbb@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mexico, just as USA, has three branches in government. Two of them are elected by popular vote (President and Congress) and the other one by internal vote (Supreme Court).

In the past, Lopez Obrador tried to change Constitution via reforms on various subjects. A couple of them were so controversial that divided the Congress in two: those of his party vs. those of other parties. The latter won just for a bit for the super-majority requirement for that type of reform.

Aside from that, the Supreme Court also didn't support some of those reforms. So, just as any authoritarian figure would do against their opposition, Lopez Obrador intended to change how the Supreme Court elects its magisters and judges, turning it into another popular vote branch (which he could control just as with Congress).

Back to the present, Sheinbaum will have that super-majority in Congress that Lopez Obrador didn't. That could allow her even reforms to the Supreme Court, effectively disappearing any opposition to whatever reform they wanted to pass.

So... let's just hope she has good intentions.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Oh My good lord you guys are screwed

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks, appreciate it

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She is a puppet of the current president, she was apponted by himself

That said, the opposition was also a woman but she was an unknown and 3 parties with different views allied to launch her as candidate

The party is projected to have qualified majority of the Congress and maybe senate so they'll be able to do a bunch of stuff so that may be worrying

They have done a lot of good stuff but also they are full of corruption like cancelling a great airport that still needs to be paid and building a shitty one very far away that no one wants to use and that interferes with the operation of the other airport so it doesn't really help with congestion

Sheinbaum is a climate scientist so I'm curious about who she'll appoint to the energy commission because the current government is all-in on carbon

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

First question how is she a puppet. Second question, and the Congress, what might be worrying about it?

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The president was thoroughly involved in the process of selecting the party's candidate. Claudia's campaign was that she'll continue with AMLO's plan
With super majority they can make changes to the Constitution

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 0 points 5 months ago

Same thing with Biden lol. Obama interfered hard to get him elected during the primary. He's not great, but he's been surprisingly better than Trump (in every way but the genocide thing and immigration) so hopefully she's better than expected, too!

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

That's never good. It's basically waiting to be a monarchy in all but name. Look no further than Venezuela and North Korea

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She was selected and placed there as a mere puppet of current president amlo. México is indeed a narco governement but people who don't actuallly experience it first hand living it every day think that this facade is true. She was married to a guy who was investigated for embezzlent but got off the hook because of political contacts. Her father was a chemist who owned a solvent factory (he has passed away and she inherited the business) with very sketchy practices regarding toxic waste management. Factory is still hers and it still operating under the same principles.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Can you explain more of the background? Ignore the downvotes