Demonstrators shouts slogans against the country’s first judicial elections, while holding signs that read in Spanish, “RIP Democracy” at a protest in Mexico City, Sunday, June 1, 2025.

A lawyer who once represented drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has won a judgeship in the northern Mexican state of ...

But the vote was marked by a very low voter turnout, about 13%. López Obrador and his successor and protege President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed the election would cut corruption in the courts.

Now, the results of the elections leave little doubt that López Obrador’s ambitions have been realized and that the judiciary has largely ended as a potential check on Morena’s power. Claudia ...