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Mexico’s Sheinbaum wins landslide to become country’s first woman, Jewish president

Mexico elected it’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, in a landslide victory on Sunday defeating her opponent, Xochitl Galvez.

By REUTERS
Updated: JUNE 3, 2024 13:33
Presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum, gestures while addressing her supporters after winning the presidential election, at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico June 3, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS/ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI)
Presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum, gestures while addressing her supporters after winning the presidential election, at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico June 3, 2024.
(photo credit: REUTERS/ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI)
Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female and Jewish president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.

Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority. That is set to be the highest vote percentage in Mexico’s democratic history.

The ruling coalition was also on track for a possible two-thirds super majority in both houses of Congress, which would allow the coalition to pass constitutional reforms without opposition support, according to the range of results given by the electoral authority.