Sheinbaum Hails Judicial Elections as Democratic Success Despite Low Turnout: Monday's Mañanera Recapped
- President Claudia Sheinbaum held a press conference on June 5, 2025, to discuss Mexico's first judicial elections following the vote on June 4.
- Sheinbaum expressed happiness despite criticism from PAN and PRI leaders who questioned the election's legitimacy and low participation.
- Sheinbaum emphasized that millions voted, the turnout was higher than previous elections for PAN and PRI, and the process will improve by 2027.
- About 13 million people voted, representing roughly 13% of eligible voters, more than double the turnout for the 2021 referendum on investigating ex-presidents.
- Sheinbaum stated the elections mark progress toward establishing the rule of law where no one is above the law, despite being a perfectible first exercise.
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The phrases that will define the government’s control over the judiciary, the last institutional counterweight that it lacked to colonize, are memorable. ‘It was a democratic success,’ said President Claudia Sheinbaum. ‘It voted for the informed people,’ added the secretary of the government, Rosa Icela Rodríguez. Do you agree with the names of those who should be voted? It was not the work of the government, the party, or the Holy Trinity with …
Sheinbaum hails judicial elections as democratic success despite low turnout: Monday's mañanera recapped
At her Monday morning press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum declared she was “happy” and “in a good mood” a day after millions of Mexicans went to the polls to vote for new judges, magistrates and Supreme Court justices. Discussion of Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections — at which citizens were tasked with electing 881 federal judges and 1,801 local ones — dominated Sheinbaum’s mañanera, at which Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez…
Beyond the ridicule that President Claudia Sheinbaum is making, qualifying last Sunday's election as successful, where, removing the null votes and incomplete ballots, valid votes were less than 10% of the electoral roll and 90% of the population turned their backs on it, the doubt that opens up is why and how it will use the enormous power they will have in their hands from September 1st.The election on Sunday is a hard blow to Claudia as leade…
On the first anniversary of her electoral victory, the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said she highlighted the economic stability that has been achieved. Questioned about this, she said that her government’s course has gone very well since assuming the presidency eight months ago and stressed that the country shows economic strength, increase in foreign investment and progress in strategic works. “Record on foreign direct investment in the first …
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, presented today's lie detector Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in charge of Infodemia; this during her morning conference in Palacio Nacional.Miguel Elorza Vásquez is the head of the section Detector of Lies, an exercise in which it is sought to deny and display false information published in the media and on social networks by opponents of the so-called Fourth Transformation.Today's edition was dedicated to …
The judicial case has been closed, reflecting the frustration felt by many opponents of the 4T (Twin Transformation). The country's situation seems to be crumbling, with no clear direction from Tijuana to Quintana Roo and Chiapas. Despite this, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo's popularity remains high, with well-known polls placing her at over 70%. Social programs continue to be a fundamental pillar for attracting votes, including the recent i…
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