Morena retains power in Mexico as far right fails to field candidate

Mexico's left-wing Morena party retained the presidency and won a supermajority in 2024, while a far-right candidacy did not make the ballot.

• Morena and its coalition partners secured a two-thirds supermajority in the chamber of deputies, and Claudia Sheinbaum won 60% of the presidential vote.
• Eduardo Verástegui, an actor and activist, failed to collect enough signatures to run as an independent far-right candidate.
• López Obrador's government doubled the minimum wage in real terms, expanded social programs, and reduced the poverty rate from 42% to 36% between 2018 and 2022.
• López Obrador argued that corrupt elites had captured the country and presented himself as the vehicle for change.