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Ian Bremmer’s 2024 elections halftime report
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Ian Bremmer’s 2024 elections halftime report

Ian Bremmer unpacks the results of major 2024 elections in Mexico, South Africa, India, and Taiwan in GZERO’s “Year of Elections” Halftime Report

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hands over a ceremonial baton of command to Claudia Sheinbaum after she was elected by the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) as its candidate to succeed him in 2024 in the presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico September 7, 2023.
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Mexico’s president-elect pushes controversial judicial reform

In her first press conference since winning the Mexican election in a landslide earlier this month, president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum backed a highly controversial plan to introduce a popular vote for the country’s Supreme Court justices.

Trump trial: How would a conviction hurt his reelection bid?
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Trump trial: How would a conviction hurt his reelection bid?

How would a conviction in his hush money trial impact Trump in the 2024 election? Is Iran's emergency presidential election really about who will eventually succeed as supreme leader? How will Mexico's presidential election reshape its relations with the United States? Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

Mexico’s midterms: AMLO unbound?
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Mexico’s midterms: AMLO unbound?

Mexico's midterm elections are largely a referendum on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's controversial agenda. His Morena party is set to win big — why is AMLO, as he's known, so popular despite coming up short on so many of his promises?

Mexico vote will test support for Lopez Obrador’s agenda of change
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Mexico vote will test support for López Obrador’s agenda of change

Halfway into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's six-year term, Mexico's election will test public approval for his efforts to expand government control of the economy and improve living standards for all. Although the veteran leftist leader remains very popular, cracks in his support have appeared. What's at stake for the Mexican president in Sunday's vote? Find out from Eurasia Group experts Ana Abad, Carlos Petersen, and Daniel Kerner.

Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, listens to the national anthem after addressing the nation on his second anniversary as the President of Mexico, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, December 1, 2020.
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Mexico’s man of the people

Mexico is a mess, and its president only becomes more popular. What's his secret?