2023-09-17 03:15:00
in next year’s election Mexico, a country that still has the concept “Male patriarchy” is deeply rooted in society. We are regarding to have the country’s first female leader.
The Mexican presidential election in June 2024 will be another interesting election battle. Because the candidate from the government party and the opposition party coalition They are all women.
The challenger from the leftist government “Morena” party is Claudia Scheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City. who was seen as suitable to assume the position of president Following Mr. Andres Manuel López Obrador, the current leader. who has been running the country for 6 years and is not eligible to run for a second term according to Mexican law
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Shenbam is a close political ally of President López Obrador. She was environment secretary for Mexico City in 2000. When Mr. López Obrador was still the mayor. And she has also helped Mr. López Obrador campaign for president three times.
Then, in 2018, she was elected mayor of Mexico City. Before leaving the position and announced that he would enter the field to challenge for the position of national leader this year.
Morena’s party said Chainbam defeated five other party candidates in five separate ballots, averaging around 39% of the vote.
Another female candidate confirmed as the opposition coalition’s nominee is Xóchitl Gálvez.
For the Mexican opposition party coalition It consists of three major opposition parties: the PRI Party, which is a large and old party; It is the main competitor of Morena’s party. There are also the PAN party and the PRD party. Ms. Galvez herself He is a senator from the PAN party.
Galvez is of indigenous descent. Coming from a poor family Received a scholarship to study computer engineering and build a body from trade until becoming a businessman She is known to wear ethnic clothing. She also stands out for her straightforward, easy-to-understand speech. She can often be seen cycling around. Go to Mexico City until he has the image of a down-to-earth politician and is popular among the working class and the new generation.
Galvez previously said in an interview that President López Obrador would never be able to defeat her. Because you are brave and is a progressive woman And this is just the beginning.
Between 2015 and 2018, Galvez served as mayor of the Miguel Hidalgo district of Mexico City. before being elected as a senator for the PAN party
The confrontation between the two female candidates is an important development in politics and society. And it reflects the increasing role of women in Mexico’s political arena. Mexico currently has the fourth-highest proportion of women in parliament in the world, surpassing Brazil, England and the United States, where only one in four senators are women.
News of the two female candidates also comes shortly following Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously decriminalized abortion. And punishing people for having abortions is once morest the law and the constitution. To give women the right to consider terminating their pregnancy on their own.
Today, nearly half of Latin American countries, including Brazil, have had a female head of government. But there is only Honduras. and Peru only There used to be a woman president.
while mexico The majority of the population adheres to the Roman Catholic religion. Still adhering to traditional values This often limits women’s rights and freedoms to live outside the home. together with the concept of patriarchy or male-dominated that is still deeply rooted in society This can be seen from the inequality in the workplace. This causes the compensation of female workers in Mexico to be lower than that of male workers. And female workers still have a chance of being fired if they become pregnant.
Women in Mexico only gained the right to vote in 1953, 33 years later than their neighbor the United States.
Mexico also has a problem of girls being forced into early marriage. A 2020 survey found that for every 100 girls aged 12-17, 4 are married.
Including the problem of violence once morest women and femicide or behavior with intent to kill. Just because the victim is a woman This has doubled since 2015.
women in mexico which accounts for 52% of the entire country’s population. Therefore be alert to the upcoming election. and they hoped that The new government that will take office next October will represent them better than any government ever has.
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