The candidate whom pollsters project as the winner of the Mexican elections, Claudia Sheinbaum, has promised to continue the legacy of the current president, the left-wing nationalist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, although with slight adjustments to mitigate violence linked to organized crime. reduce public debt, stimulate the economy, promote renewable energy and tackle corruption.
Below are the ten definitions of the former mayor of Mexico City.
His father, Carlos Sheinbaum, was a chemical engineer and worked in an oil factory to tan leather. Her mother, Annie Pardo, is a biochemist and was recognized in 2022 with the National Science Award.
His parents participated in the student movement of October 1968 in which members of the Army and a paramilitary squad murdered between 300 and 400 university students who were protesting seeking democratic change in the country, after decades of PRI government.
She has confessed that from her father, a chemical engineer, she inherited her “passion for politics and love for nature” and from her mother, a cell biologist, “a taste for science.”
“That duality between doing politics to transform the world and, at the same time, this academic, scientific sense, was where I grew up,” Sheinbaum said in a documentary.
She has a degree in physics, as well as a master’s degree and doctorate in Energy Engineering from the UNAM Faculty of Engineering. She also has studies abroad, with an academic stay at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, at the University of California.
He began in politics as leader of the University Student Council (CEU), which was against the increase in fees promoted by the then rector of UNAM, Jorge Carpizo, 1986-1987.
In 2000 he formally began his political career. A friend put her in contact with the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who was about to take office as mayor of Mexico City in December of that year and was looking for a left-wing scientist to help him with the environmental problem in the populous capital. She accepted the position of Secretary of the Environment.
She held the portfolio until 2006, when she became spokesperson for López Obrador’s campaign for the presidential election that year. A year later, in 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as part of a UN panel of experts for her efforts to spread knowledge about climate change.
According to Reuters, people on her team describe her as an “honest, capable, very hard-working and determined” woman to govern putting the well-being of the people first.
Soft-spoken, slow-speaking, and strong-tempered, he is proud to make the Mexican capital one of the most populated cities in the world, safer, improve its public transportation network, and increase environmental sustainability.
The National Regeneration Movement (Morena) was first born as a political association, and in 2014 it became a political party by obtaining registration with the then Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Sheinbaum was one of the founders of the party, with which in 2015 she won the elections to become delegation head of Tlalpan, a position she assumed between 2015 and 2017.
In 2018, Sheinbaum went down in history for being the first woman elected as head of government through popular vote. Before her, Rosario Robles had already been at the head of the CDMX government, and she was appointed as her replacement after Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas left office to seek the presidency in the 2000 elections.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s surnames have Jewish origins, since her paternal grandparents migrated from Lithuania, and her maternal grandparents were Sephardic, from Bulgaria. And although her parents were born in Mexico and her immediate family is not religious, she is very close to Jewish culture, she always celebrated the holidays at her grandparents’ house.
Some of the artists most listened to by Sheinbaum are The Beatles, Manu Chao and Óscar Chávez. However, the newly elected President is also a fan of more recent artists such as Calle 13, Bomba Estéreo and Mon Laferte. This was made known by Claudia on her social networks, when she shared the festival poster created by Instafest and Spotify for all users.
He has two children, Mariana and Rodrigo, who studied History and Art, respectively. In 2021, Mariana was involved in a controversy, after it was stated that she received a scholarship from Conacyt, for more than one million pesos, for Subsidies for Training and Scholarships.
