{"id":8161,"date":"2023-06-13T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:13:45","slug":"mexicos-top-diplomat-resigns-to-enter-primary-race-for-2024-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8161","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s Top Diplomat Resigns to Enter Primary Race for 2024 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Mexican Foreign Minster Marcelo Ebrard, center, shares a laugh with supporters after a news conference at a library in Mexico City, Monday, June 12, 2023. The top diplomat has resigned his post to enter the primary race for the country’s June 2, 2024, presidential election, and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum says she will do the same Friday. (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mexico\u2019s top diplomat resigned his post Monday to enter the primary race for the country\u2019s 2024 presidential election, and Mexico City\u2019s mayor said she would resign Friday to do the same.<\/p>\n

Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said he resigned at noon and pledged to start a nationwide campaign tour.<\/p>\n

Both Ebrard and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum belong to President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s Morena party, which will use polling to choose among four presidential contenders.<\/p>\n

The two other hopefuls \u2014 Sen. Ricardo Monreal and Interior Secretary Ad\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, who is not related to the president \u2014 are expected to resign or ask for leaves by the Friday deadline set by the Morena party. That is meant to prevent primary candidates from using their posts to gain an unfair advantage. Each can campaign throughout the summer.<\/p>\n

Morena has come to dominate Mexican politics since L\u00f3pez Obrador was elected in 2018. But the president cannot run for re-election and has promised to retire from politics after he leaves office in September 2024.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s departure poses a problem for Morena, because the young party was entirely built around his personal popularity and has not become a cohesive force. Some members come from smaller left-leaning parties and some from the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.<\/p>\n

Ebrard said Monday that he would simply continue L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s program, which the president refers to as the \u201cfourth transformation\u201d of Mexico. The term equates L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s term with three other historic eras \u2014 Mexico\u2019s 1810-21 independence movement, the reform era of the 1850s and the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s build the continuation, the next stage in the fourth transformation,\u201d Ebrard said.<\/p>\n

Sheinbaum stressed that as a woman and a scientist, she would mark firsts if she became president.<\/p>\n

\u201cMexicans are very much willing to have a woman president,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Morena decided Sunday that a series of five polls will be conducted over the summer to decide the party\u2019s nomination for the presidential election on June 2, 2024.<\/p>\n

The party is desperate to avoid splits and accusations of manipulated polls that marked its past primary races. Morena itself will conduct one poll, and each of the four presidential contenders will name private polling firms to carry out four more polls. Each will have equal weight.<\/p>\n

The polling will be carried out nationwide between late August and early September. The winner will be announced Sept. 6. Any Mexican \u2014 not just Morena members \u2014 could be surveyed in the polls.<\/p>\n

There will be no debates between the primary candidates, nor will governors, mayors, Cabinet members or the president be allowed to endorse a candidate during the primary.<\/p>\n

Two allied parties, the Green and Labor parties, will also field one primary candidate apiece for the coalition\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n

While the party says L\u00f3pez Obrador will not decide the nominee, the president\u2019s preference \u2014 and any indication of it, however slight \u2014 would likely be decisive.<\/p>\n

– Fabiola S\u00e1nchez, AP News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mexico\u2019s top diplomat resigned his post Monday to enter the primary race for the country\u2019s 2024 presidential election, and Mexico City\u2019s mayor said she would resign Friday to do the same. Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said he resigned at noon and pledged to start a nationwide campaign tour. Both Ebrard and Mexico City Mayor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":8164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/8fa41a3f378d42e0a5ffb5b77fac0795\/1000.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Mexico\u2019s Top Diplomat Resigns to Enter Primary Race for 2024 Presidential Election","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polity-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}