Sheinbaum, on the postponement of the reform against nepotism: “Whoever nominates a family member as a candidate in 2027 will look very bad”

The Green Party has managed to defeat Morena and the president, Claudia Sheinbaum. The president has justified that the senators of the ruling bloc postponed the application of the reform to stop nepotism in public offices until 2030 instead of 2027, as she planned. “Politics is choosing between inconveniences. Sometimes it is not what you want, but what can be done,” she said in her morning conference on Wednesday about the change. The threat of the ecological party to vote against the reform if its request to change the application date was not met had an effect. In the background runs the theory, according to Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña, that the Green Party intends for Ruth González, wife of Ricardo Gallardo, current governor of San Luis Potosí and senator of the Green Party, to seek the position in the 2027 midterm elections. She has rejected that she seek the nomination and the president has not received the change at all well. He issued a warning to those seeking to benefit from the deferral. “A political party that nominates a family member as a candidate [in 2027] will look very bad,” he said.

Ricardo Monreal, coordinator of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies, has announced that the analysis will be expedited so that the project, which was already sent by the Senate, is discussed next week in the plenary session. The legislator has announced that no changes are planned to the minutes approved by the co-legislator. The modification so that the reform takes effect until 2030 and not in 2027 also benefits the Monreal dynasty in Zacatecas. The Morena senator, Saúl Monreal, seeks to run for the governorship of Zacatecas to succeed his brother, David Monreal. The Morena coordinator has defended the possibility that his brother will seek the position that he also held (1998-2004). “Nepotism occurs when a hierarchical superior benefits a person who is his relative. In this case, my brothers, both the governor of Zacatecas and Senator Saúl, are elected by popular vote, the people decided and there is no nepotism in the strict sense,” he said.

The agreements with Morena's allied parties have weighed more than the presidential proposal, although the president has rejected it. “President López Obrador said that politics is about choosing between inconveniences. Sometimes it is not what you want, but what can be done. It is not whether they have given in or not, remember that to change the Constitution a qualified majority is required,” insisted the Mexican president. In her response to questions about the modification proposed by Adán Augusto López and Manuel Velasco, coordinators of Morena and the PVEM in the Senate, respectively, the president has not let go of the threat. “Who is going to sanction if a relative is nominated? The people. The party that is going to nominate a relative is not going to look very good,” she reiterated.

Sheinbaum's position has not changed. "My position remains that it should be approved by 2027. The agreement to have the majority of the parties that are part of the movement's alliance is that it would be until 2030," she said. The president has been satisfied that her proposal moves forward. "It is what was achieved in the Senate and I think it is good because it is finally in the Constitution," she insisted. The amendment has gone to the Chamber of Deputies. Approval by the lower house is followed by the endorsement of at least 17 of the 32 local congresses in the country to be able to declare the constitutionality of the amendment that seeks to put an end to the inheritance of public offices in Mexico.