#Mexico: The Xochitl challenge to the AMLO primacy. Mary Anastasia O'Grady WSJ
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#Mexico: The Xochitl challenge to the AMLO primacy. Mary Anastasia O'Grady WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicos-xochitl-galvez-presidential-election-2024-crime-violence-welfare-spending-e5361b96
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| 0:00.0 | This is for the |
| 0:05.0 | CVS. I and the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:08.0 | The other enormously important election in North America this year is for the presidency of Mexico and I welcome |
| 0:16.4 | Mariana Stasia O'Grady, the America's editor and columnist for the Wall Street |
| 0:20.7 | editorial board, looking at the candidates but particularly so the nomination of the former mayor of Mexico City of Claudia Shinebaum. I understand that |
| 0:36.0 | so Chil Gauvez is an entrepreneur and a former senator. Mary a very good evening to |
| 0:42.1 | you this is a challenge to go up against |
| 0:44.2 | Marina with a coalition. What is it that you've learned from |
| 0:49.6 | sochil-Gavez that she would change about the status quo, which is a very alarming |
| 0:55.2 | status quo in Mexico today. Good evening to you. Well good evening, John. |
| 0:59.5 | Sotiable Galvez is a candidate offering an opposition platform to the ruling |
| 1:08.3 | Moreno party as you mentioned and that and that the godfather of that party is Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador Amlo. |
| 1:16.0 | You know, since he put the party together and he's he'll be ending his term in the fall of this year. You know he's really |
| 1:26.3 | consolidated a lot of power for Moreno. I think there's 26 |
| 1:30.9 | morena governors in the country now out of 32 states so the party is |
| 1:36.4 | something to be reckoned with and so chill Galvez is trying to be that |
| 1:42.2 | opposition candidate. So she was chosen by a |
| 1:46.9 | coalition of the three largest parties in Mexico which would be the old pre-institutional Revolutionary Party, the National Action Party, |
| 1:56.4 | the Pan, and the PRD, the Revolutionary Democratic Party, which is a left-wing party. |
| 2:04.0 | So those three parties got together, they said, we'll hold a primary, we'll choose |
| 2:08.7 | one candidate because that's the only way we can be Moreno and she's the candidate and you know because |
| 2:16.8 | the Mexican economy is doing reasonably well because of the liberal policies, the economically liberal policies that were put in place before |
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