Mexico's 2024 elections saw the governing party, Morena, led by Claudia Sheinbaum, win decisively, retaining the presidency and securing a supermajority in the chamber of deputies. This success is particularly notable given the general trends of diminished fortunes for incumbents and a rise in far-right politics elsewhere. Morena's focus on addressing deep socio-economic inequalities has inspired progressives globally, though its methodologies are not without controversy. Meanwhile, the far right, represented by Eduardo Verastegui, failed to gain traction after not securing enough support to run as a candidate.
That a self-described leftwing party could have such success by fixing on Mexico's chasmic inequality has drawn attention from hopeful progressives worldwide.
Morena first notched a historic result in 2018, when Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, an old face of the left who ran for president twice before founding the party, won a record 55% of the vote during the general elections.
This time, Claudia Sheinbaum, a close ally of Lopez Obrador's, won 60% of the vote, reminiscent of the heyday of Latin America's pink tide.
Rather than developing a Mexican brand of far-right politics, Verastegui tried to transplant a distinctly American flavour that was heavy with God, guns and individualism.
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