Photo: Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum/H. Claudia Sheinbaum wins presidential election in Mexico
Almost 60% of voters voted for 61-year-old Sheinbaum, while 29% voted for her main rival, Senator Xochitl Galvez.
Mexico has completed its presidential elections, with the ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum winning. She became the first woman to lead the country, AP reported on Monday, June 3. According to preliminary counts, 61-year-old Sheinbaum, who previously held the post of mayor of Mexico City, received between 58.3 and 60.7% of the votes, the country's electoral commission reported.
This is much more than Sheinbaum's opposition rival, 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, was elected mayor of Mexico City in 2018. Environmentalist. She is one of the collective laureates 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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