Mexico election: Claudia Sheinbaum named country's first woman president | BBC News

Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico's first woman president in an historic landslide win.

Mexico's official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday's election.

That gives her a lead of about 30 percentage points over her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez.

Ms Sheinbaum will replace her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on 1 October.

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[wmvboeo]

In 1986, when the World Cup took place in Mexico. A young girl named Claudia Shienbaum led a group of college protesters to the streets.

[raggazo]

I wish she can stop the weapons coming from the us illegally so the violence can finally decrease 🙏🏼
God Bless Claudia 🙏🏼

[AngelTovar]

No way we got a first female president in North America before GTA 6.

[Science-vtvg]

Congrats to the first mexican female president and welcome to the club! Love to mexico from India. Hope our nations will build closer ties and work for the better future. I also wish mexico could be included in BRICS +
PS: those unware, India and other Asian nations such as Srilanka had already elected female prime ministers dacadecs ago. Hope USA will do the same in some century and become more progressing and feminist.

[marioeduardoibarra]

Viva México 💚❤️🇲🇽
Greetings from México City

[sydgvkx]

CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBOAM FROM RAVINDER TALWAR JALANDHAR CITY PUNJAB INDIA 🍀

[Nextraker]

One thing that pisses me off is when the Brits call us a Central American country

[rock-n-rolls]

Mexico's seems to always be 1st:

1st country to elect an African president in North America
1st country to abolish slavery in North America
1st country to elect a woman as president in North America

[e.obrien]

Well deserved, she’s an educated driven woman. Congrats México 🇲🇽

[Tee]

Congrats CLAUDIA🎉 🐾now leave a footprint For more like you🇲🇽

[bravewarrior]

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's newly elected president, is a scientist, environmentalist, and socialist.
About her background and victory:

Sheinbaum, 61, is a climate scientist and environmental engineer who was part of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change team in 2007.

She has a strong environmental background, having served as the environment minister for Mexico City under her mentor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Sheinbaum is a lifelong leftist and member of the socialist Morena party. She has pledged to continue Lopez Obrador's social welfare programs and left-wing policies.

With between 58-61% of the vote, Sheinbaum secured a sweeping mandate to become Mexico's first female president, breaking the country's long history of male leadership.
Her victory is seen as a referendum on Lopez Obrador's popular but divisive tenure, as she was his political protege and remained loyal to him despite her environmental background.

Sheinbaum's pioneering election combines her scientific and environmental expertise with her socialist political ideology, making her a trailblazer for Mexican women and the left.

[XGenKaneShiroX]

Myth: Claudia Sheinbaum is the 1st female president of America

[carolmeraz]

Women have always been in charge in Mexico.

[JazzATrain]

The fact that we elected a Jewish woman to be President proves that Mexico is an inclusive and multi-cultural society. I am deeply proud of Mexico's diversity and our openness to people from all backgrounds. Other nations should learn from our example. ¡Viva La Presidenta Sheinbaum!

[Olivia-byvm]

Vanessa Rubio, her expert, accused of corruption and for that reason now in comfortable exile in the UK where there are no extradition agreements with Mexico, please BBC!

[melmilgrom]

Congratulations, please 🙏 be safe. Make Mexico the beautiful and great country it should be! When it's safe, its. GDP will grow

[ericktellez]

She is actually the first woman president in North America as a continent

[madnalab]

HER LOYALTY IS NOT IN MEXICO " BUT IN don't want this in LIVE PALESTINA

[MarthaLuciaDiazAcosta]

I am Mexican-American :) we are so happy! Congratulations!

[AbigailBrown-wkxl]

What a legacy for Mexico . This is incredible for Mexico ❤❤❤