Mexican general elections 2017

Ivanova Zlata
Roaldich
 General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018.Voters elected a new
President of Mexico to serve a term of five years and ten months (reduced by two
months from the constitutional mandate due to a change in the inauguration date as
of 2014),128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of
the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years. It was one of the largest
election days in Mexican history, with most of the nation's states holding state and
local elections on the same day, including nine governorships, with over 3,400
positions subject to elections at all levels of government. It was the most violent
campaign Mexico has experienced in recent history, with 130 political figures
killed since September 2017
 Andrés Manuel López Obrador
 José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
 Ricardo Anaya Cortés
 Margarita Zavala
 María de Jesús Patricio Martínez
Identity
Pre-electoral campaign
 Party: National Action Party
 Pledged to transform Mexico from a
 : President of the Chamber of
Deputies in Mexico and leader of the
Parliamentary Group of the main
opposing party in the Chamber of
Deputies in Mexico
manufacturing economy to a
“knowledge economy,”
 Technologically savvy and future-
thinking
Identity
Pre-electoral campaign
 Party: Institutional Revolutionary Party
 Pledged to attack drug cartels’
 Mexican politician, economist, lawyer,
and diplomat who has served as
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Secretary
of Social Development, Secretary of
Energy and twice as Secretary of
Finance and Public Credit
finances
 To improve teacher pay
 To keep the structural reforms intact
 He promised to curb corruption
Identity
 Party: MORENA, Labor Party, Social
Encounter Party
 He was a candidate for the third time
in the 2018 presidential election
 Commonly known as AMLO
Pre-electoral campaign
 Pledged to include increases in financial aid for students and
the elderly
 Pledged an amnesty for some drug war criminals
 Pledged a cancellation of the Mexico City New International
Airport project

a referendum on energy reforms that ended Pemex's
monopoly in the oil industry
 stimulus of the country's agricultural sector

delay of the renegotiation of NAFTA until after the elections
 the construction of more oil refineries
 To increase social spending
 slashing politicians' salaries and perks

the decentralization of the executive cabinet by moving
government departments and agencies from the capital to
the states
Identity
Pre-electoral campaign
 Party: Independent
 opposes abortion
 Wife of the former president of Mexico
 a proponent for constitutional
 Mexican lawyer and politician
amendments that would have allowed
politicians to seek reelection
Identity
Pre-electoral campaign
 Party: Independent
 Indigenous movement
 Mexican Nahua indigenous person, a
 female spokesperson to represent
traditional medicine healer and
human rights activist
the indigenous community
 To protect exploited, oppressed and
discriminated of the earth its own,
regardless of their ethnic or national
origins and cultural characteristics
 January: numerous accusations and attack advertisements directed at the leftist frontrunner candidate
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who contested the elections with the support of his party MORENA. A Red
Scare-like campaign was used by the PRI and PAN candidates to convince voters that a López Obrador
victory would turn Mexico into "another Venezuela“
 March: the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) started an official investigation into money-laundering
allegations against Ricardo Anaya. A total of 22 state ex-governors, all members from the PRI, were accused
of misuse of public funds and misdirection of money (with some money speculated to have been directed to
the PRI); only five were sent to jail, with PGR receiving criticism for not investigating further.
 April and May: On 16 May, Margarita Zavala suspended her presidential campaign. Santiago Nieto
decided to join AMLO's campaign. More than 130 political figures were killed from when the campaign
began in September 2017 until July 2018
 Ballot access requirements
 Allegations of foreign intervention
 Possibility of election tampering