It’s official now. This Monday it was confirmed that Mexico will have the first woman to occupy the position of president of the country. Is about Claudia Sheinbauma scientist part of the official conglomerate and who will continue the route of the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“I did not arrive alone, we all arrived, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our ancestors, our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters,” she said. Sheinbaum after announcing his victory in the recent federal elections of the North American country for the Presidency of the period 2024-2030.
The candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena party) surpassed Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz of the National Action Party (PAN) and Jorge Álvarez Máynez of the Citizen Movement (MC party) with 59.35% of the votes, reaching the historic position of being the first woman “in 200 years of the Republic,” she stated during her speech.
With extensive experience in politics and science, Claudia Sheinbaum She will begin her new position on October 1, but who is this woman everyone is talking about?
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
Born on June 24, 1962, Claudia Sheinbaum She is the daughter of scientific parents and left-wing political activists, whom she accompanied during her youth in different activities and demonstrations against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which was in power for more than 70 years in Mexico.
With the years, Sheinbaum She studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unam), where she led student movements during the 1980s. After that, she specialized as an environmental engineer, beginning a research career at the Engineering Institute of the same university.
According to interviews, Sheinbaum He says that he met Lopez Obrador (current Mexican president) in a meeting at his house, in the year 2000, after a week of the announcement of his candidacy as head of Government of the Federal District, for the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). After a while, Lopez Obrador He proposed to be part of his Administration as Secretary of the Environment.
Although in the 2006 and 2012 elections she was spokesperson for López Obrador’s presidential campaign, with negative results, this time served to lay the foundations of what would become the party. National Regeneration Movementbetter known as Brunetteof which she participated as founder.
In 2015 she obtained the position of delegate of Tlalpan, and in 2018 she became the first woman elected as head of government of the Mexican capital, a position she left vacant to compete in the presidential elections in 2024.
Be Claudia Sheinbaum whoever is in charge of the so-called “fourth transformation”, a project that represents the continuity of the current Administration.
