Politics Events Local 2026-01-15T01:13:20+00:00

Mexico City Moves to Ban Nepotism in Politics

The authorities of Mexico City are preparing an initiative to ban direct relatives from running for public office at the local level. This decision could affect several influential families, including the governor's and current mayors'. The ruling 'Morena' party aims to pass the law, despite the fact that it failed at the federal level due to opposition pressure.


Mexico City Moves to Ban Nepotism in Politics

An issue being raised is that if one family member runs in a specific district, another could not aspire to any public office of election as they are a direct relative. The same could happen in Gustavo Madero. However, their purpose remains firm, and the leadership of Morena confirmed that it will not allow it internally. As LPO reported, in Tláhuac, the ruling party is considering as mayoral candidate the Secretary of Indigenous and Peasant Affairs of the local Morena leadership, Rigoberto Salgado, who is the brother of the strongman of the demarcation and current National Commissioner for Aquaculture and Fisheries, Rigoberto Salgado. If this were to happen, the blue and white party would have to modify its scenario in the demarcation, as she could not compete due to being a direct relative of the current governor. Harfuch announced a new blow to the Tren de Aragua with six detentions in the CDMX. The opposition is not the only sector that would suffer internal consequences. In this way, the '4T' of the capital seeks to achieve one of the objectives undertaken nationally by Claudia Sheinbaum, but which she failed to realize due to pressures from the Green Party, which seeks to nominate Ruth González, a senator and wife of the governor of San Luis Potosí, Ricardo Gallardo, to succeed him. Sandra Cuevas backs Sheinbaum again: 'Don't listen to the hypocritical opposition.' In the capital's Congress, the '4T' holds a strong absolute majority, which anticipates the approval of the initiative without major problems. In that demarcation, the mayor, Janecarlo Lozano, seeks for his brother Cristofer Lozano to be a candidate for local deputy for District 4, which is already held by the Morena legislator Ana Buendía. 'One thing are federal elections and offices, and another are local elections and offices,' a Morena figure aware of the conversations in the Palace of Donceles assured this newsroom. In this way, in the CDMX, candidacies of direct relatives in the 2027 elections could be prohibited, which could complicate some aspirations and disrupt scenarios in certain demarcations where members of the same family are already raising their hands to maintain current power quotas. One of these cases, for example, is in the Miguel Hidalgo mayor's office, where the PAN mayor, Mauricio Tabe, is promoting his wife and current local deputy, Laura Álvarez. Just as in Tláhuac, the mayor's search for re-election would automatically leave his relative out of the race due to the initiative being promoted in Donceles. President Claudia Sheinbaum failed in her attempt to prohibit nepotism at the federal level for the 2027 elections due to pressures from the Green Party. In this context, the ruling party in the CDMX is preparing to advance with the prohibition of this type of practice, but at the local level for the midterm elections to be held next year. 'It's not going to be possible,' the same Morena source anticipated, who revealed that the initiative will come out without major setbacks for the government. In this way, in the second most populous borough of the capital, they consider that this move to maintain power within the family could fall through before it even starts to move forward.