The former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, would have a comfortable lead in the race to represent the ruling left-wing party (Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional, Morena) hours before the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces the winner of primaries conducted from polls.
A telephone report prepared by the newspaper El Financiero, using the same methodology as Morena, placed Sheinbaum with 36% support, followed by former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, with 25% of the votes. The survey was carried out on September 1 and 2 among 500 people and has a margin of error of 4.4%.
The survey confirms the studies carried out in recent months by the consulting firm Covarrubias
The importance of these primaries derives from the hegemony that Morena enjoys in the landscape of Mexican politics. The influence and presence of López Obrador's party is so great that his successor in the 2024 presidential elections has many numbers to be elected. The current president is ineligible for a second six-year term.
Sheinbaum is a close ally of the current president of Mexico and this happens ahead of Ebrard, popularly better known than the former mayor.
If Sheinbaum is elected, the chances of a female president for Mexico would be absolute, since the opposition candidate is also a woman, Xochitl Gálvez, who was elected to the presidential elections last weekend in the Mexican capital. This engineer is the woman who will lead the candidacy of the coalition led by the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI).
Gálvez has become known in recent weeks for his confrontations with López Obrador, who put into his mouth some statements that he did not make. This has given the indigenous origin policy some notoriety, but not enough to beat Sheinbaum out.
