Mexico's ruling Morena party on Sunday elected Interior Secretary Luisa Maria Alcalde as its new leader and awarded the son of outgoing Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador a high-ranking position.

Mexico’s ruling party chose the son of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for a senior role on Sunday, in a sign the leftist leader will continue to influence public life after he steps down. López Obrador is in his final weeks of a six-year term that has polarised Mexican politics and concentrated legislative power in his party.

Alcalde, a 37-year-old lawyer who hails from a storied Mexican political family, will be tasked with helping consolidate disparate wings of the Morena movement without its founder, Lopez Obrador, who