Issue

Claudia Sheinbaum

Xóchitl Gálvez

Energy sovereignty

• A prominent leader in the 2008 Adelitas movement, resisting against president Felipe Calderon’s efforts to privatize the energy industry.
• Defended AMLO’s electricity sector reform and lithium nationalization.

• Opposed AMLO’s electricity reform, giving  the government 56 percent of the Mexican electric market and guaranteeing electricity as a human right.
• Voted against lithium’s nationalization and the elimination of unfair regulations to the national oil company, Pemex.

Public health

• Mexico City’s public health model now being replicated in most states as Mexico transitions to a universal health care system.

• Proposed that government employees pay for their own private health insurance. Her proposal is similar to Obama Care.
• Voted against national health care.

Austerity

• As mayor, reduced Mexico City’s debt by 5.1 percent despite COVID economic crisis.
• In one year, reduced expenses in Mexico City’s government by 25 billion pesos ($1.47 billion) by canceling luxuries, private insurance, and media expenses.

• Abstained from vote to require less government  spending on high salaries, media, and other superfluous expenses.
• As governor of Miguel Hidalgo district in Mexico City (2015-2018), cut social programs, increased media expenses.

Public education

• Long history of defending free public higher education.
• Changed a scholarship benefiting only 10 percent of public school children into a universal benefit. 

• Opposed reform bill that reversed 40 years of slowly privatizing education.
• Multimillionaire ally  Claudio X. Gonzalez, was a principal supporter of attacks on public school teachers.

Public safety

• As mayor, decreased the homicide rate by 46%. Took office with the highest rate recorded, left with the lowest rate since 1989.

• Praised president Calderon’s public safety approach, which saw  homicide rates increased by 193 percent due to “war on drugs.” His minister in charge of public safety, Genaro García Luna, is a convicted drug-dealer,  currently incarcerated in NYC for conspiring with drug cartels.