{"id":62124,"date":"2024-05-30T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/mexicans-are-on-the-verge-of-electing-their-first-female-president\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:42:13","slug":"mexicans-are-on-the-verge-of-electing-their-first-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/mexicans-are-on-the-verge-of-electing-their-first-female-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexicans Are on the Verge of Electing Their First Female President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/29\/multimedia\/00mexico-sheinbaum-vjbq\/00mexico-sheinbaum-vjbq-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mexicans Are on the Verge of Electing Their First Female President\" title=\"Mexicans Are on the Verge of Electing Their First Female President\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Claudia Sheinbaum\u2019s list of accolades is long: She has a Ph.D. and a shared Nobel Peace Prize and was the first woman elected to lead Mexico City, her nation\u2019s capital and one of the largest cities in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now she has another chance to make history. Ms. Sheinbaum, 61, is the clear front-runner in the Mexican election on Sunday, putting her in position to become the country\u2019s first female president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But she has an image problem, and she knows it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many Mexicans are wondering: Can she be her own leader? Or is she a pawn of the current president?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s this idea, because a lot of columnists say it, that I don\u2019t have a personality,\u201d Ms. Sheinbaum <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@latinus_us\/video\/7341182642471193862\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">complained<\/a> to reporters earlier this year. \u201cThat President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador tells me what to do, that when I get to the presidency, he\u2019s going to be calling me on the phone every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With the Mexican election just days away, Ms. Sheinbaum is facing a fundamental dilemma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She insists she will govern independently from her mentor, Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador, and has some different priorities. But veering too far from his agenda could be very risky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She and Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador are \u201cdifferent people,\u201d she said in an interview. He\u2019s an oilman who invested in environmentally questionable projects; she\u2019s a climate scientist. Yet Ms. Sheinbaum has risen to the top in part by aligning herself completely with him, and by backing moves like his big bet on the national oil company and constitutional changes that critics call antidemocratic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Will she dare to stray from those policies if she wins office, inviting the reproach of Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador and the movement that got her there? Or will she dedicate herself to cementing his legacy, even if it means stifling her own vision?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cClaudia can\u2019t say what she\u2019s going to do, because right now she has to show absolute loyalty to Andr\u00e9s Manuel,\u201d said Ana Laura Magaloni, a legal expert who advised Ms. Sheinbaum during her first year as mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen when Claudia is free from that yoke, when Andr\u00e9s Manuel is no longer there?\u201d Ms. Magaloni said. \u201cNo one knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The other top contender is a woman named X\u00f3chitl G\u00e1lvez, a tech entrepreneur who is representing several opposition parties. But with Ms. Sheinbaum leading the polls by 20 percentage points, much of the national debate has centered on who she would really be as president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum says it is sexist to suggest that the possible first female leader of Mexico is really only the puppet of a man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a trace of misogyny, of machismo there,\u201d she told one interviewer. \u201cThey say, \u2018The only reason she\u2019s ahead in the polls is because she\u2019s the same as the president, or she\u2019s the president\u2019s favorite.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador will be remembered for doubling the minimum wage and lifting millions out of poverty, but also for empowering the military, prioritizing fossil fuels and pushing measures that critics say could weaken Mexico\u2019s democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His successor stands to inherit a long list of troubles. The state-owned oil company is buckling under debt, migration through the country has reached historic highs, violence is raging and former President Donald J. Trump is already threatening tariffs if he wins the American election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum told The New York Times that she was prepared to work with whichever candidate wins the next U.S. election. Publicly, she has echoed Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s emphasis on tackling Mexico\u2019s cartel violence and migration by addressing their root causes. In a hint of potential change, she said in a recent debate that she would seek to reform the c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/12\/world\/americas\/migrants-deported-us-mexico.html\" title=\"\">ountry\u2019s migration authority<\/a>, an agency often accused of corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe need to be more effective in decreasing irregular crossings,\u201d Juan Ram\u00f3n de la Fuente, a member of her campaign team who is seen as her likeliest pick for foreign minister, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some in Washington have privately questioned whether Mexico\u2019s cooperation on migration could lag after the country\u2019s elections, but Mr. de la Fuente batted away those concerns. \u201cWe will continue with the same, I would say, rigor trying to contain those flows of migrants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A former ballet dancer, Ms. Sheinbaum calls herself \u201cobsessive\u201d and \u201cdisciplined.\u201d But discipline may not be enough, analysts say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador is a generational political talent who built his party into a juggernaut by relying on the force of his personality. When his coalition became fractious, he used his enormous political capital to corral internal rivals. When problems arose, he persuaded Mexicans he was solving them even if his own <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/20\/world\/americas\/violence-mexico-killings.html\" title=\"\">government\u2019s statistics disagreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now comes Ms. Sheinbaum, her demeanor more professorial than fiery, trying to take control of a political world defined by Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s brand of power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe needs him,\u201d said Carlos Heredia, a Mexican political analyst. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t have the charisma, she doesn\u2019t have the popularity, she doesn\u2019t have the political stamina of her own, so she needs to borrow that from L\u00f3pez Obrador.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Times spoke with two dozen people who have worked with or know Ms. Sheinbaum and also visited campaign events, reviewed her writings and her media appearances and interviewed her, once in 2020 and again this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What became clear is that Ms. Sheinbaum has long seemed more comfortable quietly getting things done than selling herself or her achievements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The granddaughter of Jewish immigrants who fled Europe, she rarely discusses being Jewish or almost anything about her personal life, colleagues say. When interviewers ask her about the Nobel Prize she shared with a panel of climate researchers, she notes how many others were involved in the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She is known as a tough boss with a quick temper who can inspire in her staff fear and adoration at the same time. Publicly, though, her affect is so controlled it verges on aloof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador, by contrast, is entirely comfortable revealing his inner emotional state to the world. Nearly every weekday for the last five years, he has held a morning news conference in which he spends hours hashing out his anxieties, celebrating his wins and assailing his critics. When he\u2019s not going for the jugular, he comes across as warm and charming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAndr\u00e9s is more charismatic,\u201d Marcelo Ebrard, the former foreign minister who is now on Ms. Sheinbaum\u2019s campaign team, said in an interview. A one-time rival of Ms. Sheinbaum\u2019s within the party, Mr. Ebrard didn\u2019t mean this negatively. Hers is \u201ca different kind of leadership\u201d he said, which may be \u201cmore efficient\u201d than personality-driven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For some Mexicans, a thrills-free woman may be an ideal antidote to an entertaining man who plunged the country into partisan turmoil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But her opponents just see an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/previews\/eZoKUsnZ\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a recent campaign event for college students<\/a>, Jorge \u00c1lvarez M\u00e1ynez, the third-place candidate, was asked to define Ms. Sheinbaum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cVery boring,\u201d he said, smirking. The room broke into applause.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5acba30f\">\u2018The Mayor Said To\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Born to two scientists who were leftist activists in the capital, Ms. Sheinbaum was always \u201ca serious girl,\u201d said Arturo Cano, a journalist who wrote a biography of the candidate. As a child, she made family visits to feed political prisoners, Mr. Cano said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While at the National Autonomous University, she helped lead a movement protesting a plan to raise student fees and change admissions. She married one of the leaders of the movement and had a child with him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the early 1990s, they moved to California, where she studied Mexico\u2019s energy consumption at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The candidate\u2019s political career began when Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador was elected mayor of Mexico City in 2000 and invited her to a meeting at a diner. \u201cWhat I want is to reduce pollution,\u201d she recalled Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador telling her. \u201cDo you know how to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum, who by then had written more than a dozen reports on energy use and carbon emissions, said yes. She became his environment minister. In meetings, she seemed willing to do almost anything to make her boss happy, according to several people who worked with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe phrase she used over and over again was \u2018The mayor said to,\u2019\u201d said Mr. Heredia, who worked with her in city government under Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What that meant, according to Mr. Heredia: \u201cWe are not a cabinet for giving ideas,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are a group of people here to execute what he decides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Heredia was confused when he learned that Ms. Sheinbaum, the climate expert, was overseeing the capital\u2019s big new investment: building an elevated highway across Mexico City. The project would just encourage people to drive more, critics said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the time, Ms. Sheinbaum said that the new road reduced pollution by easing traffic, though experts say it is hard to corroborate that claim. One <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0967070X17301592\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2018 study<\/a> said the effect on emissions was \u201cnot significant\u201d because even though congestion was lower, the number of cars increased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2006, Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador ran for president and lost by less than one percentage point. He disputed the results and led his supporters in a monthslong occupation of the capital\u2019s downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There, he held his own inauguration ceremony, where he proclaimed himself \u201cthe legitimate president\u201d of Mexico. Ms. Sheinbaum helped adorn him with a presidential sash. When he then set up a \u201clegitimate cabinet,\u201d he named Ms. Sheinbaum as a minister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMany of us didn\u2019t want to join them in this insanity of a \u2018legitimate cabinet,\u2019\u201d said Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, now in the opposition, who was then part of the leftist party Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador belonged to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBut she was there with him,\u201d Mr. Acosta Naranjo said, \u201cliving in this underworld, in this alternate, parallel universe full of people who thought they were making a revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-642eb4f3\">\u2018What Do You Want, Someone Soft?\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the years that followed, Ms. Sheinbaum straddled academia and politics, but she always stayed close to Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador. When he founded his Morena party in 2014, he asked her to run on the ticket as local mayor and, with his backing, she won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2018, he was swept into the presidency in a landslide and she became Mexico City\u2019s mayor. She quickly gained a reputation as an exacting boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOne doesn\u2019t go to her meetings to tell her, \u2018I\u2019m working on it,\u2019\u201d said Soledad Arag\u00f3n, a former member of Ms. Sheinbaum\u2019s cabinet. When she walked into a room, Ms. Arag\u00f3n said, everyone sat up straight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mayor could remember specific numbers mentioned in a meeting weeks after it occurred, Ms. Arag\u00f3n said, calling her \u201cbrilliant\u201d and \u201cdemanding,\u201d especially with herself, adding: \u201cIt has gotten results.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Five officials who have worked with Ms. Sheinbaum, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said that she was quick to anger at times and would yell at her subordinates in front of large groups. Through a spokesman, Ms. Sheinbaum declined to comment on the accusation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Cano, the biographer, said that when he asked Ms. Sheinbaum about the \u201cmany, many stories\u201d he had heard of her toughness as a boss, she told him: \u201cIf there\u2019s one thing I can\u2019t stand, it\u2019s lazy people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her defenders say some people merely reacted badly to a woman in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI know that in her government, sometimes people got offended or felt bad because she yelled at them,\u201d said Marta Lamas, a longtime feminist activist who has been close to Ms. Sheinbaum and her team. \u201cBut if a man yells, it wouldn\u2019t be an issue because culturally, it\u2019s different.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPeople say it in a critical way: \u2018She\u2019s tough,\u2019\u201d Ms. Arag\u00f3n said. \u201cWhat do you want, someone soft in charge of the city?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the time Covid hit Mexico, Ms. Sheinbaum had eked out some space to govern her own way, empowering technocrats over party loyalists and investing in the police to fight crime, instead of relying on the military like Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, in interviews, she points to the pandemic as evidence that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/05\/world\/americas\/mexico-mayor-amlo-sheinbaum.html\" title=\"\">she and Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador are not always aligned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador rarely wore masks in public, suggested two amulets would protect him from Covid and did not emphasize nationwide testing. Ms. Sheinbaum tested aggressively and pushed mask-wearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But when scientific principles conflicted with her loyalty, Ms. Sheinbaum chose loyalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Christmas approached in 2020, with hospital beds running low, the federal government <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/21\/world\/americas\/mexico-city-covid.html\" title=\"\">misled citizens about the severity<\/a> of the virus in the capital, saying it hadn\u2019t reached the critical level of contagion that would have required a full lockdown. The capital stayed open for weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum could have shut the city down earlier, but didn\u2019t. The result was an enormous outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An independent commission this year called the episode \u201cone of the most serious government failures\u201d of the pandemic in Mexico. Ms. Sheinbaum has said she disagrees with the commission\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-69980954\">No Confrontation, No Submission<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum\u2019s behavior during the campaign has been a kind of Rorschach test for the Mexicans obsessing over what path she would take if elected president. Those who think she would break from Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador see signs of autonomy everywhere. Those who disagree see only obedience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Subscribers to the first narrative point to the candidate\u2019s appointment of well-respected experts to her campaign team, her vow to promote renewable energy and her openness to re-evaluating the military\u2019s expansion into public enterprises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But she has also gotten behind some of the president\u2019s most contentious ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In February, Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador put forth a set of profound changes to the constitution, including eliminating independent regulators and requiring Supreme Court justices to be elected by popular vote. The move provoked alarm among critics, who said the president was trying to obliterate checks and balances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, a day later, Ms. Sheinbaum fell in line, holding a news conference where she announced she would adopt all his proposals as her own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To the naysayers, this was an illustration of their worst fears: Ms. Sheinbaum following instructions from Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador to take steps that would harm democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. de la Fuente, who is helping to design Ms. Sheinbaum\u2019s plans, seemed to downplay the importance of the proposed changes to the judiciary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it is necessarily the top priority,\u201d he said, adding that Morena would need to win a supermajority in Congress to push the measures through, something party officials see as unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Between Ms. Sheinbaum and Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador, he added, \u201cThere will be no confrontation, but there will be no submission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, the candidate has tried to explain how she can be so in step with the president while also being herself. The answer, she says, is simple: She genuinely believes in him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2022, a radio host asked her a pointed question from a female listener: \u201cWhy don\u2019t you choose to be a woman who governs with her own ideas? Why don\u2019t you get out of AMLO\u2019s circus?\u201d she asked, using Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s nickname. \u201cWhy have the same rhetoric with the same words?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Sheinbaum didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you think the same as another person, it\u2019s not that you\u2019re copying them; you just agree with the ideas,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can\u2019t deny what you believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/30\/world\/americas\/mexico-election-claudia-sheinbaum.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudia Sheinbaum\u2019s list of accolades is long: She has a Ph.D. and a shared Nobel Peace Prize and was the first woman elected to lead Mexico City, her nation\u2019s capital and one of the largest cities in the Western Hemisphere. Now she has another chance to make history. 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