How Mexico crushed neoliberalism and the right
Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America’s TIM YOUNG looks at Morena’s landslide, where rolling back privatisation, boosting welfare and reclaiming national resources has transformed the country and rallied huge support
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ON October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum, the Morena party’s successor to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will start her term in office.
She was elected on June 2, when the right wing in Mexico suffered a historic defeat and she won the presidential election by a landslide margin of over 32 points, becoming the first woman and first person of Jewish descent to be elected president.
The election saw Sheinbaum receiving the highest number of votes ever recorded for a candidate, surpassing Amlo’s record of 30.1 million votes. In total, she achieved just under 36 million votes.
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