Mexico says no to nepotism: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped

Among the questions President Claudia Sheinbaum fielded astatine her Wednesday greeting property league were ones connected the anti-nepotism betterment approved by the Senate connected Tuesday and the projected U.S. tariffs connected Mexican exports that are scheduled to instrumentality effect adjacent week.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s Feb. 26 mañanera.

The Senate passed the authorities sent by Sheinbaum earlier this month. As Sheinbaum herself describes it: “From 2030, determination volition nary longer beryllium reelection and determination won’t beryllium relatives who inherit positions.”

Anti-nepotism betterment approved, but it won’t instrumentality effect until 2030 

A newsman noted that Congress approved Sheinbaum’s betterment aimed astatine eliminating nepotism successful authorities and the anticipation of contiguous reelection to each nationalist offices. She asked the president her sentiment astir the betterment not taking effect until 2030, arsenic Congress determined.

Sheinbaum noted that the betterment she sent to Congress stipulated that it should instrumentality effect successful 2027, and declared that her presumption continued to beryllium that it should participate into unit successful 2027.

“I recognize that … successful bid to person [two-thirds] bulk [support] from the parties that are portion of the confederation [led by the ruling Morena party] … they agreed that it wouldn’t instrumentality effect until 2030,” she said.

“… It’s a determination for the senators and deputies,” Sheinbaum said.

“… What matters to Mexicans is that determination isn’t nepotism successful electoral processes,” she said.

Governor of Guerrero Evelyn Salgado with her father, Félix Salgado, who was a Morena campaigner for the presumption she yet ran for aft helium was disqualified by the National Electoral Institute. (File photo)

“… It volition spell into the constitution, which is the astir important thing, … not successful 2027, successful 2030, but successful the extremity it volition spell into the constitution,” Sheinbaum said earlier noting that the betterment inactive indispensable beryllium ratified by a bulk of authorities legislatures.

“From 2030, determination volition nary longer beryllium reelection and determination won’t beryllium relatives who inherit positions,” she said.

“And helium who does it successful 2027 volition look precise bad, right? … We anticipation that, astatine slightest for the governmental enactment I travel from, they don’t enactment immoderate comparative [up for election],” she said, referring to authorities and national elections that volition beryllium held successful 2027.

On the X societal media level connected Tuesday, José Díaz Briseño, a Reforma paper analogous successful the United States, wrote that “Mexico’s ruling conjugation passed a prohibition connected nepotism” successful government, but noted that it won’t instrumentality effect until 2030.

He added that “this allows” the member of the politician of Zacatecas, the woman of the politician of San Luis Potosí and the begetter of the politician of Guerrero “to tally for the bureau their comparative presently holds.”

Morena is successful powerfulness successful Zacatecas and Guerrero, portion the Ecological Green Party of Mexico, an state of Morena, is successful bureau successful San Luis Potosí.

Another newsman enactment it to Sheinbaum that the Morena-led conjugation “postponed the betterment to transportation retired a last enactment of nepotism.”

She responded: “President López Obrador utilized to accidental that ‘politics is choosing betwixt inconveniences.’ Sometimes it’s not astir what you privation but alternatively what tin beryllium done.”

Sheinbaum reiterates she volition question telephone with Trump, ‘if necessary’ 

Not for the archetypal clip this week, Sheinbaum said that “if necessary” she volition question to talk by telephone to United States President Donald Trump arsenic Mexico seeks a caller woody to stave disconnected 25% tariffs connected Mexican exports that are scheduled to instrumentality effect adjacent Tuesday.

Sheinbaum said she’s acceptable to conscionable with Donald Trump by telephone to scope a woody connected tariffs. (Gage Skidmore via Flickr/Cuartoscuro)

She noted that dialog betwixt the Mexican and U.S. governments is ongoing.

“The meetings intensified this week and we’re ever going to question to scope an statement wrong the model of respect for our sovereignty and constitution,” Sheinbaum said.

Trump said Wednesday that 25% tariffs connected Mexican and Canadian imports would instrumentality effect April 2. However, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick indicated instantly afterwards that the tariffs were inactive owed to instrumentality effect adjacent Tuesday March 4 astatine the decision of a one-month suspension.

Reuters reported that a White House authoritative “said Trump’s erstwhile March 4 deadline for the 25% tariffs connected Mexican and Canadian goods remained successful effect ‘as of this moment,’ pending his reappraisal of Mexican and Canadian actions to unafraid their borders and halt the travel of migrants and the opioid fentanyl into the U.S.”

Reuters besides said that Trump’s remarks “sowed disorder during his archetypal furniture gathering connected Wednesday” and “prompted jumps successful the worth of the Canadian dollar and Mexican peso versus the greenback.”

Mexican information officials to conscionable with Marco Rubio connected Thursday 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, with President Donald Trump. Members of Mexico’s information furniture are traveling to Washington, D.C. to conscionable with Rubio this week. (Donald Trump/X)

Sheinbaum told reporters that members of the national government’s information furniture were traveling to Washington D.C. connected Wednesday to conscionable with United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected Thursday.

She said that Security Minister Omar García Harfuch, Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, Navy Minister Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles and Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente would conscionable with Rubio, who past week designated six Mexican cause cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations.

“They person a gathering tomorrow,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the Mexican officials would “seek to adjacent a [security] practice statement wrong the model of our sovereignties.”

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])