5 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Mexico's Judicial Election Puts Spotlight on Former President's Son
MEXICO CITY—Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador set the stage for Sunday's unprecedented election to choose judges and Supreme Court justices. He left it to his son to pull it off.
Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, operations chief of the ruling Morena party that his father founded, oversaw the political machine that mobilized millions of working-class voters to participate in Sunday's novel election. Voters across the country cast ballots in nearly 2,700 judicial races including the nine seats on Mexico's Supreme Court, becoming the world's first country where all judges will be directly elected.
