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Sheinbaum is 1st Female Mexican President in 200 Years: AMLO (www.telesurenglish.net)

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During Monday's morning press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) highlighted the importance of the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president of Mexico.

"Yesterday I already congratulated her. I am very happy because you can imagine what it means to hand over the presidency to a woman after 200 years of republican life in which only men governed Mexico since 1824," he said.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How did AMLO lose? I thought he was popular.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He didn't lose, he just cannot serve another term. She belongs to his party and he effectively campaigned for her. His popularity greatly helped boost her in the election. As a result of this election AMLO's party now has such a historic majority in government that the liberal media is fearmongering about how this may even give them a mandate to change the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. It would be dope if they get a clear majority and use it to change the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The liberal media have already been portraying AMLO as a dictator for his "populist" policies, if his party tried to change the constitution to make it more leftist all the liberals would go crying to the US for intervention and regime change.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Liberals are already seething. Guessd in Mexico we are not "civilized" enough for a female president.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

this is similarly the current SK government's stance on getting called out for their sexism: "we can't be sexist, look at Afghanistan, that's sexism"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

LMAO

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mexico doesn't have second term for presidency (They started their Revolution in 1910 because of that issue). She is from his party, I think

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Only one term per president? That seems a bit extreme.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

There are very understandable reasons based in Mexican history for strict term limits.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

6 years term though. And it is very ingrained thing on mexican political life after Porfirio Diaz ruled for almost 30 years and 6 terms in the beginning of the century

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She is the continuation (at least seems so) of AMLO.