Preliminary results show that Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City’s former mayor is set to become the country’s first female president.
According to the National Electoral Institute, the ruling party candidate had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, an uncontestable lead based on a statistical sample of ballots from polling stations.
Besides, Sheinbaum will also be the country’s first leader of Jewish heritage, although she always governed as a secular leftist and keeps her personal background off the public.
Opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez, a female rival, had between 26.6% and 28.6% and Jorge Alvarez Maynez had between 9.9% and 10.8%.
Campaigns for Mexico Top Seat
The 61-year-old rode the wave of popularity of her longtime political ally, the outgoing leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and their Morena party.
She campaigned on continuing the political course set over the last six years by her mentor president Obrador, who was elected in 2018.
Sheinbaum promised to continue with his policies, including a universal pension for the elderly and a programme paying youths to undertake apprenticeships.
Opinion Polls conducted before the elections ranked Sheinbaum, a former climate scientist, as the favorite candidate.
According to February and March polls by Mitofsky, Parametría, and De las Heras Demotecnia, she enjoyed a support of between 49% and 67% compared to her political rivals.
Deaths Reported
Sunday’s vote was marred by the killing of two people at polling stations in Puebla state.
This added to the multiple attacks that have made Mexico’s largest-ever elections also the most violent in its modern history.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Family & Career
The president-elect was born in 1962 and has two children and one grandchild.
She is married to Jesús María Tarriba, a financial risk specialist at the Bank of Mexico.
In 2018, she elected to become the head of government of Mexico City making history as the first to hold this position.
Between 2000 and 2006, she served as Secretary of the Environment for the Federal District under Andrés López Obrador’s administration.
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In 2015, she became the first woman elected as the head of the Tlalpan borough, serving until 2017.
She joined the government of Mexico City in 2018 as head until June 2023, when she stepped down to run for the presidency with the Morena party.
In Mexico, a president can only serve one six-year term according to the constitution. This rule has been central to Mexican politics since 1909, when Francisco Madero campaigned against President Porfirio Diaz, who had ruled for thirty years.
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