Mexico’s ruling party picked veteran politician Clara Brugada to be its candidate for Mexico City mayor, placing her in a strong position to win the election next June. Brugada could become the second woman in a row to be elected as mayor of the Mexican capital if her campaign for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) is successful.
“Thank you to everyone who gave us their trust,” Brugada wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. “Today we came out strong and united to win the heart of our great capital.” To pursue the post, two-time congresswoman Brugada stood down as mayor of Iztapalapa, a sprawling borough in the southeast of the capital of over 1.8 million people where she built up a respected track record during three stints in charge. New gender parity rules on political representation in Mexico secured the nomination for the 60-year-old Brugada, even though the capital’s former chief of police Omar Garcia Harfuch comfortably defeated her in polling commissioned by the party.
