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Mexico's first woman wins presidential election

Mexico's first woman wins presidential election

Photo: Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum/H. Claudia Sheinbaum won the Mexican presidential election

Almost 60% of voters voted for 61-year-old Sheinbaum, and 29% voted for her main rival, Senator Xochitl Galvez.

The presidential elections in Mexico have ended, with the ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum winning. She became the first woman to lead the country, AP writes on Monday, June 3. According to preliminary estimates, 58.3 to 60.7% of voters voted for 61-year-old Sheinbaum, who previously served as mayor of Mexico City, the country's election commission reported.

This is much more than Sheinbaum’s opponent from the opposition, Xochitl Galvez, who received 29%.

The publication emphasized that the election race in the country was accompanied by a high level of violence – at least 37 candidates for various positions were killed during the entire campaign.

Claudia Sheinbaum was born in 1962 in Mexico City. Scientist and politician, in 2018 he was elected mayor of Mexico City. Environmental specialist. She is one of the collective winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Sheinbaum represents the National Regeneration Movement party of the current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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