Regional Polarization & FEDERALISM
Synthesis
In the last 20 years, tensions in the different government levels have marked the Mexican political system. Because, unlike most of the world’s federations, the Mexican one has been characterized by lacking clear jurisdiction as much in the constitutional level as the legal one. However, it has been during López Obrador’s presidency were two of the governmental groups have consolidated and have acted in the federal government: on one side the Asociación de Gobernadores de Acción Nacional (National Action Governor Association), created August 30th, 2019, and on the other hand, the Alianza Federalista (Federalist Alliance) created on June 10th, 2019 by ten governors as a response to what they considered lack of cooperation on by the federation in public safety topics and everything related to the fight against the pandemic.
