Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico’s President
Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, secured the presidency as Mexico’s first female leader. She won 58.6% of the votes, while Xóchitl Gálvez acknowledged defeat with 28.4%. Sheinbaum’s party is set to gain a major congressional majority. Amid concerns, Sheinbaum reassured her commitment to democracy, while critics voiced apprehensions about potential autocracy. Your summary of Claudia Sheinbaum’s election as Mexico’s first female president is concise and captures the key points effectively. It provides a clear overview of the election outcome and the reactions from both Sheinbaum and her critics.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, was elected as Mexico’s first female president on Sunday.
Sheinbaum, of the Morena party and the heir-apparent to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), won 58.6% of the votes with 73% of the ballots counted, Mexico’s election agency reported.
Candidate Xóchitl Gálvez garnered 28.4% of the vote and conceded defeat, while Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from the center-left Citizen Movement, won 10.6% of the vote. Galvez warned, “I want to stress that my recognition (of Sheinbaum’s victory) comes with a firm demand for results and solutions to the country’s serious problems.”
“Morena and its allies also appeared headed for a two-thirds majority in Congress needed to make constitutional changes without opposition support,” The Wall Street Journal reported, adding that it was the “first time a Mexican leader will have such a large congressional majority since the early 1990s.”
In an attempt to reassure voters that her newfound power would not become autocratic, Sheinbaum stated, “We are democrats and out of conviction would never be an authoritarian or repressive government.”
But Carlos Elizondo, a professor of government at the Tecnológico de Monterrey university, warned, “This is the worst scenario that could have happened.”
“If I’m an investor, I’m thinking these guys just got a blank check and what’s going to happen,” political analyst Antonio Ocaranza said. “López Obrador wants to complete his agenda and take the political cost of those decisions while leaving Sheinbaum a blank slate to begin.”
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In May 2023, López Obrador had stated he was supporting a campaign to get Hispanics, especially Mexican-Americans, not to vote for Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, as well as attacking Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott, saying, “The governor of Texas, campaigning, [saying] he will militarize the border and that he will continue building [the] wall; and the governor of Florida, the same, because he wants to be the Republican Party candidate and he’s politicking.”
The Heritage Foundation reported in June 2023 of López Obrador (AMLO), “Mexico’s president is also saying that he wants to cut a deal with his country’s powerful cartels, which already control parts of the country that AMLO’s government supposedly governs. These cartels are responsible for producing deadly drugs that have caused more than 100,000 overdose deaths in the United States.
Sheinbaum, 62, is Jewish. Her grandparents fled Eastern Europe before World War II. She is not religiously observant.
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