The final Mexico presidential debate is history. This is the “other” 2024 election Rocky Point Mexico’s American friends should be watching. However, they probably aren’t. After all, the toxic 2024 U.S. presidential election is more on their minds.
Politics in Mexico City is far away from Puerto Peñasco, both literally and figuratively. The presidential candidates don’t visit to speak at the Sonoran Sun Resort. They don’t shake hands along the malecon. Nor do they stop for photo opps with puppies at Barb’s Dog Rescue. It doesn’t happen because all this is simply too small for the big national stage events like the final Mexico presidential debate.
Still, for we the people, the president elected on June 2, 2024, to lead Mexico is important. The term is for six years and a lot could happen in that time. If so, this would likely deal more about the relationship with the United States than in Rocky Point as we know and love it.
Final Mexico Presidential Debate Setting
Mexico media reports claim the 3 candidates applied heavy pressure on how the third and final Mexico presidential debate would go. It seems they wanted a safer and easier setting being so close to 100 million voters heading to the polls.
Unlike the two earlier debates, there was no live audience yesterday. The debate committee proposed a face-to-face section designed to put the candidates in direct exchanges with one another. However, the candidates voted that down. The setting at Tlatelolco University in Mexico City was more to their liking.
Instead, the debate was organized into four segments. The areas discussed featured their social policies. Division of power and pluralism was also discussed. Plus, there were the matters many voters cared most about: security and organized crime, along with foreign policy, migration and democracy.
Mexico Presidential Candidates
The third and final Mexico presidential debate featured the usual barbs and verbal attacks by the candidates. The favorite in the polls is Claudia Sheinbaum, on the right in the above photo. She follows current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as the candidate for the ruling Morena Party. Sheinbaum’s closest rival is also a woman. Xóchitl Gálvez (on the left above) is part of the opposition coalition. Meantime, Citizen Movement candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez is in the center of the photo.
The candidates also presented the usual favorable statistics and extended political promises. However, because no earth-shattering news came from the event, the expected result will likely occur.
Get ready for Mexico to elect Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president in the country’s history. And if you are heading to Puerto Peñasco on the first weekend of June, know there is no public sale of alcohol because of the election.