Welcome to the President's Inbox, a CFR podcast about the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.

I'm Jim Linze, Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This week's topic is Mexico's presidential election.

With me to discuss the dynamics and consequences of Mexico's upcoming election for itself and for its northern neighbor is Andres Rosenthal.

Andres is president of the consulting firm Rosenthal E. Associados, which advises multinational

companies on their corporate strategies in Latin America.

He was founding president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations.

Andre served for more than 35 years in Mexico's Foreign Service.

His post included ambassador to the United Kingdom,

Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico,

Ambassador to Sweden,

and permanent representative of Mexico to the United Nations in Geneva.

Andres, thank you for coming back on the president's inbox. Happy to be here, James.

Very, very happy, Jim. I want to do a bit of a scene, said her, Andres. Mexicans are going to go to the polls

on Sunday, June 2nd. Like in the United States, in November, Mexicans are participating in a general election.

They will elect a new president who will go on to serve a six-year term, all 500 members of the

Chamber of Deputies and all 128 members of the Senate of the Republic. And again, as in the United

States, most of the attention is focused on the

presidential race. Now, the Mexican Constitution limits incumbents to a single six-year term.

So incumbent President Andres Manuel Lopez Obedo, more commonly known as AMLO, won't be on the ballot.

But I suspect his presence is going to be hovering over

the entire campaign. As I look at it, Andres Amlo looks like he would win if he were able to run

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