Marcelo Ebrard is resigning from the government to run for Mexico’s highest office. Among other things, he would compete against the mayor of Mexico City.
A year before the presidential elections in Mexico, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced his resignation. The 63-year-old minister and former mayor of Mexico City said he would resign next Monday to seek a nomination as a presidential candidate in the ruling party’s internal competition.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s left-wing Nationalist Movement for National Renewal (Morena) wants to discuss the selection process at a meeting of the national party council on Sunday. The joint candidate of Morena and two allied parties is to be determined by a poll.
The most promising candidate is the mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum (60). She could become the first female president of the most populous Spanish-speaking country with 126 million people. López Obrador, who after six years in office is not allowed to run again, is very popular with the population. Before the presidential election on June 2, 2024, his party is clearly in the lead.
Source: Stern
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