Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win. While In her victory speech, she told voters: “I won’t fail you.”
Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed her winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday’s election over her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez.
Opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez conceded defeat after preliminary results showed her taking between 26.6 and 28.6 percent of the vote.
While in addition The ruling Morena party also won the Mexico City mayorship race, one of the country’s most important posts, according to preliminary results.
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador has congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum on her expected win in Sunday’s presidential election. “With all my affection and respect I congratulate Claudia Sheinbaum who came out victorious with an ample margin. She will be the first female President of Mexico… but also the President, possibly, with most votes obtained in all of the history of our country,” he said in a video posted on X.
Moreover, From 2000 to 2006, Sheinbaum served as Secretary of the Environment under future president Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his tenure as Head of Government. Sheinbaum served as Delegational Chief of the Tlalpan borough from 2015 to 2017 and was elected Head of Government in the 2018 election where she ran a campaign that emphasized curbing crime and enforcing zoning laws.
Sheinbaum has promised continuity, on the advances made by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who she will replace on 1 October. Prior to running for president, Sheinbaum was mayor of Mexico City, one of the most influential political positions in the country and one that is seen as paving the way for the presidency.