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Mexico will almost certainly have its first female president in 2024, after the governing Morena party and the opposition coalition both chose women as their candidates.
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was named Morena’s candidate on Wednesday, despite runner-up Marcelo Ebrard’s last-minute denouncement of the process and demand for it to be redone.
Sheinbaum is a climate scientist-turned-politician who was widely believed to be the preferred choice of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador who is unable to run again.
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Gálvez is a businesswoman who became a senator in 2018 and has seized media attention with her aspirational story of growing up with an Indigenous father and mestizo mother in Hidalgo state, before working her way through public university and into business and politics.
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I don’t know those two, but the idea of a scientist as president sounds awesome.
Angela Merkel is a famous example of someone who has a doctorate in quantum chemistry and was a researcher before turning to politics.
It helped in some cases. E.g. the first thing the government did when faced with Covid was to ask experts and put it into the hand of the RKI with several people familiar with coronaviruses.
However, in other instances she understood the science and just chose to ignore it because of politics.
Understanding science is good, but you still need to act accordingly.
Among other things, this scientist has neglected mexicos city subway causing several accidents and failures.
Ideally a scientist would operate politically on the basis of improving society though objective, measurable and honest actions, however Sheinbaum is corrupt as they come, she’s pretty smart but she’s basically sold her soul to her party, which was founded by the current Mexican president, who has been dismantling as many autonomous bodies for checks and balances as well as transparency institutions as he can.
Sheinbaum is very likely to win since the president has a 2-3 hour live propaganda show almost every morning where he attacks journalists and the opposition and he makes cringe jokes.
We’ll have to see if once she gets executive power she starts acting for the betterment of society or if she continues following AMLO
You’re right on the money. She has always failed to distance from AMLO, since he basically appointed her as the Mexico City Mayor to begin with. I really hope, when the time comes, she distances herself from him. Fingers crossed.
I totally agree, but why would a good scientist stop researching?
Also we are speaking about real scientists, not the one mentioned in the article.
What do you mean “real” scientists?
She has a PhD in energy engineering and physics.
Friendly reminder that having a woman president doesnt mean things will be different, and I really doubt they will.
For starters, one of them is partially responsible for the colapse of a school causing the death of 26 people and has left México city fall into disrepair for the last 5 years.
The other one is a demagogue who says she will fix the country because “she is diferent”, following the steps of our current president by fueling the “us vs them” rethoric he started/boosted.I’m getting Peña Bots vibes from your comment.
Peña es un pendejo títere del pri que solo vino a calentar la silla.
Si quieres discutir este tema usa argumentos. Tu intento de insultarme trae una vibra de chayoteroLmao.
I heard this same story before in the US in 2016. It doesn’t matter what the polls say, you have to assume that your candidate is actually behind in the race and they’re going to lose unless you do everything you can do right now to help them win.
Both candidates are women. So regardless of who wins, they will have a woman President.
Just like with hillary, switching up the sex of the president is just a ploy to make people think things will be different.
They won’t be. Can’t wait to see how cozy these candidates get with the cartel.
Women having power is not just a ploy, it’s just something that makes sense since it’s half the candidate pool and they are just as qualified.
I wish you were right.
Unfortunately, just having the first woman president is enough to get some people to vote for them.
Well yeah, because representation and identification matters to people. If you’ve never had female leaders due to bigotry, of course there’s an incentive to push for ones, otherwise gender equality will never establish itself. And it’s not like there aren’t plenty of good female candidates in general, so why not try to actively support one.
