Mexico Vote for Top Court Shows Majority With Morena Ties
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum casts a ballot at a polling station during the judicial elections in Mexico City on June 1.
Photographer: Mayolo Lopez Gutierrez/BloombergMexico’s new Supreme Court will feature a clear majority of justices with direct ties to the country’s former leftist president or the ruling Morena party he founded, according to preliminary election results with nearly all votes counted.
The leading candidates from Sunday’s election for the nine-member high court include three justices who were all originally nominated to the court by ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO and the mastermind behind the election. Three other likely winners worked for him in the past or for Morena.