A major candidate for Mexico’s 2024 presidential elections has proposed giving the president’s son a central position within the subsequent administration
FILE – Mexican Overseas Minter Marcelo Ebrard listens to a query throughout an interview at his workplace in Mexico Metropolis, Monday, April 3, 2023. Ebrard introduced on Tuesday, June 6, 20023 that he intends to resign as Overseas Minister as he exams the waters to run for President of Mexico in 2024. (AP Picture/Fernando Llano, File)
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MEXICO CITY — A major candidate for Mexico’s June 2024 presidential elections proposed Monday giving the president’s son a central position within the subsequent administration.
The proposal by candidate Marcelo Ebrard raised the specter of a nationwide political dynasty being born in Mexico, the place historically they had been frowned on.
Ebrard mentioned that if he wins the nomination of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena celebration, he would appoint the president’s son, Andrés Manuel López Beltrán — higher referred to as Andy — to a newly created Cupboard publish to make sure his father’s legacy.
Whereas López Beltrán has not publicly commented on the proposal, it will seem like a strategy to clear up a central downside for Morena.
The younger, disparate celebration was largely discovered round, and centered on, López Obrador’s private recognition and charisma, which all of the contenders to succeed him lack. The six-way major race will likely be determined in September by a sequence of polls.
The inclusion of his son was an apparent bid by Ebrard, the centrist former international relations secretary, to make sure continuity and maybe to draw among the president’s most devoted followers. Ebrard mentioned the son could be put in command of a Cupboard-level division “to proceed constructing on the legacy” left by López Obrador.
López Beltrán has not held any formal publish in his father’s administration, however has been broadly reported to be a behind-the-scenes dealmaker and influencer in political and financial issues.
Whereas household dynasties have ruled some elements of Mexico on the municipal and even state degree, for practically 100 years an ironclad rule has prevailed on the federal degree: the outgoing president agrees to retire from political exercise, as does his quick household. In change, incoming presidents have seldom investigated corruption on the a part of their predecessors.