President Claudia Sheinbaum defends Plan B of the constitutional reform in electoral matters, which she sent to the Senate last week. This plan proposes maintaining the judicial election in 2027 and, above all, advancing the recall election. 'We are in total agreement with that,' she responded. According to Sheinbaum Pardo, it is 'a problem' that the president subject to a recall cannot tell citizens, 'you decide if we stay or go,' 'remember that the recall is on such a date.' 'That is what we say we can say, that's all,' she added. In this sense, she added that 'some say that if the president says that, she is already campaigning for Morena, but no.' Sheinbaum Pardo recalled that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promoted the establishment of the recall process when he was Head of Government of Mexico City. She called it 'absurd' that the incumbent head of the executive branch cannot speak about the process. However, she admitted that if a president is well or poorly rated, it can influence whether citizens vote for the national project they represent. 'If the president speaks during the recall, are they strengthening the party's project?' 'If it is a national project, yes, but if I were poorly rated, if people did not want to, no matter how much I talked about it, people would not vote for the national project, or would not choose for the president to remain in power. It has to do with the presidents, doesn't it?' Claudia Sheinbaum defended that the recall election be held in 2027 concurrently with the midterm elections and the judicial election; she promised that 'the president cannot campaign' because it is 'prohibited.' At the morning press conference, the head of state was consulted on whether, by being able to speak about the recall process, she strengthens or weakens the project of her party, Morena. 'If it is in the middle of the term (in this case in 2027), the president cannot campaign for a political party. What is the objective? They set up a third of the polling stations because there were not enough resources, in the end. With all that, 16 and a half million people voted.'
