“We are going to expand access to the rights of the people of Mexico; to education, health, housing, culture, we are going to continue building a true state of well-being”he stressed as the main axes of his future government.
According to the quick count of the National Electoral Institute, Sheinbaum, Morena’s candidate and the incumbent president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, obtained 58.4%, while Galván came in second place with 28.5%.. The leader of the PAN-PRI-PRD alliance admitted an “irreversible trend” and noted: “See you in three or six years.”
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“I congratulate all the participating candidates, the Citizen Movement candidate, the PRI PAN PRD candidate and of course, with all my affection and respect I congratulate Claudia, who was the winner in this race with a wide margin. She will be the first president of Mexico in 200 years,” AMLO celebrated.
Cristina Kirchner also sent a message to the elected president: “We congratulate the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) for the victory obtained at the polls and to their candidate, today the first President of Mexico, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum.”
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Last Friday, the murder of a local candidate in the state of Puebla raised the number of candidates murdered during the 2024 electoral season to 37, surpassing the 2021 midterm elections. In this way, according to a report by Reuters, These were the bloodiest elections in the history of Mexico.
In this context, a series of attacks and the presence of alleged criminal groups forced the authorities to suspend elections in two municipalities in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in the south of the country, bordering Guatemala.
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum, 61 years old and of Jewish origin, became the first woman elected president in the history of Mexico this Sunday. She is one of the founders of the MORENA party, to which the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador also belongs.
Sheinbaum had already marked a milestone in December 2018 by becoming the pfirst woman elected as head of Government of Mexico City, a position she held until June 2023. Previously, she had served as Secretary of the Environment of the Federal District, between 2000 and 2006, and as delegation head in Tlalpan from 2015 to 2017.
Claudia Sheinbaum, campaign event in Yucatán, Mexico May 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum is a politician, scientist and environmentalist.
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She has a degree in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She also has a master’s degree in Energy Engineering and a doctorate in Energy Engineering. Her research focused on the link between the energy sector and climate change.
Later she trained in Sustainable Development and Environment, which in 2007 led her to join the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As an energy and industry expert, she contributed to the “Climate change mitigation” theme of the Fourth Assessment Report. That year, the group was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to counter climate change.
