cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16338802

The day after Mexico’s leftwing ruling party Morena won a landslide victory in presidential, congressional and state elections, one executive stayed in bed all afternoon eating ice cream to try to cope. A wealthy woman in Mexico City told friends it was time to “move to the house in Houston”, while another business leader said his WhatsApp chats were marked by a mood of “collective suicide”.

President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and Morena’s victory last Sunday was not a surprise, but the scale of their triumph was. Sheinbaum vaulted 31 points clear of her nearest challenger, centre-right entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez, and Morena is now poised to push through radical changes to the constitution after greatly increasing its majority in congress.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It’s very easy to comprehend. All the other candidates were killed by the cartel. Seriously, when you have 31 candidates all murdered, I think public ideology is no longer as high on the list for why someone might have won an election.

    • Morgoon@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I think you’re misinformed. There hasn’t been a Mexican presidential candidate killed since the early 90’s. There have been anti-cartel politicians running for local elections killed, but almost entirely in Sinaloa and Acapulco.

      That’s kinda like saying Joe Biden is illegitimate because someone running for city council in Chicago on an anti-gang platform was killed.