Breathe
By Sonia Garza González, National President of the Mexican Association of Women Heads of Business (AMMJE), National Board Member of COPARMEX, COPARMEX NL and CAINTRA NL. Selected in 2022 and 2023, as one of the 100 Powerful Women in Business by Expansión magazine.
In Mexico, this year, the June 2 elections will be the first to be held, breaking more than a century of tradition: Mexicans will go to the polls a month earlier, and the person who becomes the Head of the Executive Branch will take office in October instead of December.
In addition to the presidential election, there will be changes in the Congress of the Union, with 128 senators and 500 deputies; eight states will hold elections for the succession of governors: Chiapas, Morelos, Tabasco, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Puebla, Veracruz, Yucatán and Mexico City; in the 32 states of the republic, local legislatures and city councils will be renewed, among other positions, and in the case of Mexico City, the new heads of the 16 mayoralties will be elected.
It will be a historic day that will go around the world, because we are glimpsing the arrival of the first female President in Mexico. This event will cross borders, because she will also be the first female President in North America, something that would put the nation and the region at the level of other Latin American countries, where there have already been, although few, an interesting list of female presidents. I am sure that in our collective memory we will remember the popular Michelle Bachelet (Chile), Cristina Fernandez (Argentina), Dilma Vana Rousseff (Brazil) and Dina Boluarte (Peru), although there were other female presidents before them.
