Mexico’s opposition parties have a new top candidate for the 2024 presidential election who’s caught the public’s eye for her open criticism of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, according to a local poll.
In the July poll by El Financiero, 22% of voters said they preferred Senator Xochitl Galvez to other candidates from the opposition parties, far more than the 16% who said they favored her closest competitor, congressional leader Santiago Creel.
Opposition parties, which include the National Action Party, or PAN, Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and Party of the Democratic Revolution, known as PRD, have lost ground in recent years to the president’s Morena party, which has maintained control of Congress and won over state governorships that previously belonged to them.
