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.
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.
However, in other instances she understood the science and just chose to ignore it because of politics.
Do you have an example of that? I mean choosing politics over science doesnt immediately screams “wrong” to me
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
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.
Crazy! Just read this morning that Mexico descriminalized abortion in the whole country and now this! As a Mexican, I am kind of proud.
(Mexican too) is that right? I didn’t know that, I’m always kinda out of the loop about most things.
Mexico has always had some of the highest number of women in their legislature compared to the rest of the world.
It’s kind of surprising it took this long.
Did some wikipedia sleuthing on their politics.
Gálvez seems to have jumped from a conservative right-winger party to a progressive socdem/demsoc (wikipedia lists both) one and is running as an independent.
Sheinbaums background is in the progressive socdem/demsoc one
Right wing in mexico is not as extreme as the one in the US, though (even then I don’t like them), but what needs to be clear is that although the current party in position is very left (which is great) it’s not really progressive other than in labor areas. I don’t like sheinbaum specifically and I think morena could do better than her or the current president as it has shown from their legislative branch but politics in Mexico right now are very weird.
Didn’t the ruling party just decriminalize abortion? That’s pretty good and progressive.
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.
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 chayotero
Oh, phew! I first read that as “Mexico to set on fire first female president in 2024” Congrats Mexico. (For the female president, not the imaginary fire)
