Sheinbaum calls Mexico election ‘extraordinary’ despite low turnout

Mexico City – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was ineffective. “Gorgeous, impressive,” he said to journalists on Monday. “Extraordinary. … A great success.”

The superiors continued to come to the historical judicial elections of Sunday – the champion of Sheinbaum – but the President could not hide a harsh reality: only 13% of the 100 million appropriate voters labeled the ongoing “transformation of the President of the ruling party.

Nobody expected the vote of Sunday, which did not contain contestants for legislative duties through any national or state -wide voting, to approach 61% of last year’s national elections. Sheinbaum won the victory of the landslides last year, and Morena’s political block was swept to majority in both the Congress and in the state houses and towns around the country.

Participation was more disappointed than the lowest pre -election forecasts of approximately 15%. Some election defenders predicted that one -third of the voters would be per the polls.

“Everything can be perfected,” the president agreed.

Experts said that the lack of participation could be attributed to many factors: it was an out -of -year election; The voting process was new and extremely curved; The majority of more than 7,000 competitors for the 881 Federal judge position were unknown for the task of 1,800 state lawyers.

The election was not a partisan of the former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Brain Child – the founder of Morena and the mentor of Sheinbaum. Judges are not defined by political commitment and are forbidden to receive party funds. There was no big rally or advertising stain in a competition on social media.

And for the first time in Mexico, the judges appointed by expert panels for the first time or for the president in the case of the Supreme Court. Mexico became the first nation in the world with a chosen judgment.

“The task was a very time for voters who had to learn about an ugly number of ugly candidates, Kennek said Government Professor Kenneth F. Greene at the University of Texas in Austin. “Nobody probably could learn all.”

However, many political observers have seen the low participation of Sunday as a shameful mishap for a party that seems invincible in its extraordinary march since its emergence less than a decade ago.

Government opponents had fun at a rare opportunity to mockery with Morena’s legendary election power, to label the “Black Market” vote and the system of judicial independence and the system of control and balances of Mexico.

“This was a voter fraud festival festival and dare to say that the people are running, Jor

The columnist Denise Dresser Archly, who wrote in the reforma newspaper, compared the election to a long -time planned gala in which no one has joined.

“They spread the carpet, sent invitations, assembled the chairs, designed the menu, [and] He made a contract with Mariachis, Dress Dresser wrote. “ They were finally lonely. “

Will all complaints and low participation make any difference in the final structure of the judiciary? Many experts say no – although the opposition promises to complain to the American States Organization, it is a significant movement that can be more symbolic.

The final results will not be known for one or two weeks. But in the end, the official number will stop and pro -MORENA judges will receive their seats in a system where Sheinbaum is corrupt and full of favoritism.

“He would always strengthen Morena and give President Sheinbaum more power than it is, to observe the voting process at Mexico City. “My strong guess is that Sheinbaum can now overcome the laws and constitutional reforms that the government has dominated all three branches of the government. We see a tremendous intensity of power in the presidency.”

The most watched race is for the structure of the new Supreme Court, which will have the authority to challenge the legislative and presidential decisions, both instead of 11 existing 11. Only three seating members chose to run to the office. All three were the appointment of López Obrador, who had repeatedly clashed with justice about their efforts to reform election law and other initiatives.

It is seen whether the new judges of Mexico will improve on the current judiciary. Many Mexicans openly agree with the President’s claims that Mexico’s judicial system needs a revision.

But judges are just part of a system of justice with many flaws. Other organizations, which were not touched in the judicial reform, both of which were badly corrupt, were especially the offices of the regional lawyer and local police.

Both Sheinbaum and the Salafist nation returned to the national guards as the law enforcement officers. However, the National Guard troops played a role in various recent scandals, including killing civilians and trade of black market gasoline.

Alejandro Monsivais-Carrillo, a political scientist in El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, said, “But it doesn’t matter: the party control of public forces is progressing without retreat.”

Special reporter Cecilia Sánchez contributed to Vidal.