Mexico made history by electing a female president for the first timewho will be in charge of assuming the position – currently held by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) – in October of this year.
The candidate who achieved victory at the polls is Claudia Sheinbaum Pardoa 61-year-old scientist who has experience in both politics and academia.
In fact, He studied Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has a master’s degree and a doctorate. in Energy and Environmental Engineering.
Along with it, He was part of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change, which received a Nobel Peace Prize. in 2007.
Sheinbaum is a member of the Morena partythe same one that AMLO represents.
He was born on June 24, 1962 in the country’s capital. His father (Carlos Sheinbaum) was a chemist and businessman, while his mother (Annie Pardo) is a biologist and doctor..
Both of his parents were children of persecuted Jews and They studied at UNAM, where they were militarized on the left policy.
In 2022, his mother received the National Science Prize for his contributions in the field of cell biology.
According to the BBC, Claudia Sheinbaum grew up in an upper-middle class neighborhood of the capital—Tlalpan—and assures that Since she was little she has been interested in political issues..
He studied at the Manuel Bartolomé Cossío secular school and She often says that she is “daughter of 68”, a phrase with which she alludes to the global protest movement. in which his parents participated.
In 1987 she married the leftist politician Carlos Ímaz.of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR) and in 1995 they moved to California (United States), where they raised their two children.
The couple separated in 2016. However, In 2023 he married again. This time with Jesús María Tarriba, boyfriend she had at university and who he met again on Facebook.
Like her, he studied Physics, has an ideology close to the left and is linked to public work.. He works as an official of the Bank of Mexico.
Sheinbaum’s entry into the political sphere occurred after AMLO was elected in 2000 for the mayor of CDMX..
There, asked him to take charge of the Ministry of the Environment and that it would be mainly in charge of reducing pollution and building the second floor of a large highway.
After completing these tasks, In 2006 and 2012 she was spokesperson for AMLO’s failed presidential campaigns..
Already in 2015, Sheinbaum won the mayor of Tlalpan in CDMX.
In the 2018 elections, the year AMLO secured the presidency, she She became the first woman to assume the head of government of the capital.
Among the points he emphasized during his recent campaign are: increase university and school scholarships, give pensions to women dedicated to care, strengthen the medical and mental health system, build housing and ensure gender pay parity at the constitutional level.
The president-elect is scheduled to assume power next October 1.
