The presidential elections that took place in Mexico on June 2 delivered the reigning Morena party and its candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, a decisive victory. Founded in 2014 by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, Morena won 60 percent of the vote in a three-way race and a two-thirds majority in the legislature. Sheinbaum took office in October with an indisputable mandate. She campaigned on a promise to continue the policies that AMLO implemented during his tenure as president, which witnessed measurable advances for workers.

Official figures show that real wages surged by approximately 30 percent, labor’s share of income increased by 8 percent, and the earnings of the bottom 10 percent grew by 98.8 percent. Additionally, the country’s Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, improved, and overall poverty dropped by 8.5 percent, with over nine million people lifted out of poverty — the largest reduction in twenty-two years. Unemployment rates are now the lowest in the region, coupled with a slight decrease in informal labor.