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Weekly Report - 05 June 2025 (WR-25-22)
Sheinbaum undeterred by low turnout for key vote
A “complete success” is how Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum described the country’s unprecedented, mammoth judicial elections, which took place on 1 June. Sheinbaum went on to say that Mexico was “the most democratic country in the world” on account of the elections, which saw the public elect around 2,600 positions, from local magistrates to supreme court (SCJN) justices. This is not an interpretation shared by the political opposition or other detractors who labelled the elections a failure, saying low participation rates undermined the legitimacy of the vote. They view the elections as indicative of the subversion of democratic checks and balances under the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), with suspicions that the left-wing party used the vote to stack the SCJN and other important courts with loyalists.
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