Mexico has a new leader who won by a pretty large margin.
Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide in the Mexican presidential elections on 2 June. With close to 60% of the vote, the magnitude of her victory exceeded that of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018. Her party, Morena, formed only a decade ago, secured a two-thirds majority in Congress and is just two representatives short of doing so in the Senate.
It seems the people like a government that does things for them rather than catering to big-business and the rich.
Her platform included the extension of the programas sociales, reducing the pension age for women from 65 to 60 and giving welfare payments to students at different levels, while pushing ahead with plans for universal public healthcare. Amid a nationwide water crisis, the incoming government has vowed to roll back the privatization of water and place stricter regulations on its use by big business. And it intends to meet electricity demand increasingly through zero-carbon sources like wind, solar, hydroelectric and geothermal power. Morena’s support among the middle classes is not a sign of co-option; it appears to be a result of the generalized improvement in living standards
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