During Monday’s morning press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) highlighted the importance of the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president of Mexico.
“Yesterday I already congratulated her. I am very happy because you can imagine what it means to hand over the presidency to a woman after 200 years of republican life in which only men governed Mexico since 1824,” he said.
Mexico doesn’t have second term for presidency (They started their Revolution in 1910 because of that issue). She is from his party, I think
Only one term per president? That seems a bit extreme.
There are very understandable reasons based in Mexican history for strict term limits.
6 years term though. And it is very ingrained thing on mexican political life after Porfirio Diaz ruled for almost 30 years and 6 terms in the beginning of the century