There is no period of time that will not pass. This Sunday June 2 are carried out biggest elections in the history of our country, not only because there are more than 20 thousand positions at stakebut because for the first time Mexico I could have one female president. This is if everything develops as indicated by the surveys, which showed that in the first places were Claudia Sheinbaum Brown and Xochitl Galvez Ruiz.
Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate of the alliance Let’s keep making history -made up of Brunette and the Green Ecologist parties of Mexico (PVEM) and Labor (P.T.)- cast his vote in a box of the San Andrés Totoltepec neighborhood, in the mayor’s office Tlalpan. From early on, the presidential candidate was already expected by the national and international media and neighbors who sympathize with her national project, which is why the polling station is perhaps one of the most crowded this Sunday.
“I want to tell you that For the presidency I voted for Ifigenia Martínez and everything else, you know how we vote. ¡Long live democracy!”, expressed the presidential candidate at approximately 10:00 am. Likewise, Sheinbaum Pardo said that the Citizens “should not be afraid” to be participants in these elections despite the violence that at times is experienced in our country.
The former head of the CDMX Government arrived at the polling station around 8:55 in the morning accompanied by her husband. Jesús María Tarriba, to cast her vote for all the positions that will be elected in the capital and was widely photographed: “We are going to show that it is a democratic country,” said the candidate while greeting everyone who was waiting for her and forming a line, which It was already spacious upon arrival. Like any citizen, the Morenista waited about an hour for her six ballots to be delivered.
Before casting her vote, the presidential candidate mentioned that when she left the polling station she would go to have breakfast with her family and then go to the operations center that Morena installed in the Hilton Hotel in front of the Alameda Central, in the Historical Center from CDMX. It is important to remember that the former head of Government had to make a transfer of approximately 20 minutes by car because she lives in a different neighborhood than the one in which she has her credential.
Scientific of profession and policy By conviction Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born on July 24, 1962 in Mexico City, formerly the Federal District. She has a degree in Physical by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as well as a teacher and doctor in Energy Engineering also for the Maxim of Studies. She is also a graduate of the Advanced Studies Program in Sustainable Development and Environment (LEAD–Mexico) of the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies, and the Advanced Studies Program in Sustainable Development of El Colegio de México.
However, his approaches to social struggles and politics occurred at an early age since he was already studying at the College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) South participated in demonstrations in favor of young people who did not get a place at UNAM. In the Science Faculty was part of the University Student Council and in 1989 Sheinbaum Pardo joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
His first political position was as Secretary of the Environment of the Federal Districtbetween 2000 and 2006, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador was head of capital government; During his administration, projects such as the first line of the Metrobushe second floor of the Periférico, the creation of Community Ecological Reserves, among others. Sheinbaum resigned from office in May 2006 to join AMLO’s first presidential campaign.
In 2008 he led the ‘adelitas‘, a group of women who were part of the Movement in Defense of Oil who protested outside the Senate against Felipe Calderón’s energy reform and his alleged intention to privatize Mexican oil (Pemex); and in 2011 he was a fundamental part of the creation of National Regeneration Movement (Morena) as a civil association, although by 2014 it would obtain registration as a political party.
Evidently, Claudia Sheinbaum left the PRD that year and joined Morena and in 2015 he competed for Tlalpan delegation headquarters, a position he won with 29.48 percent of the votes. One of the most important challenges was undoubtedly the earthquake that shook central Mexico September 19, 2019since as a result of this the Enrique Rébsamen School during school hours, which was in their demarcation. This accident claimed the lives of 26 people, including 19 minors-ñ
Months later, Sheinbaum left office to run for the Head of Government of Mexico City. The Mexican scientist and politician won with 47.08 percent of the votes and became the first woman to hold this position. Throughout the five years that he was in charge of the country’s capital, the creation of social programs for students, the creation of educational institutions middle and higher level and the expansion of cycle pathsalthough it was also criticized for the accident in May 2021, when part of the Metro Line 12leaving more than 80 people injured and 27 who lost their lives.
In 2023 he asked for leave and stayed in his place Marti Batres Guadarrama. Sheinbaum participated in Morena’s internal contest for the presidential candidacy and beat the former chancellor Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, another of the favorites to succeed Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Throughout this electoral process, the former head of Government of CDMX has remained as leader in pollsleaving in second place the contender from the Fuerza y Corazón Por México alliance made up of the National Action (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and PRD- parties, Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, and in third place Jorge Álvarez MáynezCitizen Movement (MC) candidate.
