Claudia Sheinbaum expected to win Mexico's election by a landslide, set to be first woman president
Supporters of Mexico 's presidential candidate for the Morena party, Claudia Sheinbaum , wait for her at Zocalo Square on election day in Mexico City on 2 June 2024. Claudia Sheinbaum was set to be elected Mexico 's first woman president, exit polls showed, a milestone in a country with a history of gender-based violence.
Pollster Parametria forecasts that Sheinbaum will win a landslide 56% of the vote, according to their exit polls, with opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez at 30%.Provisional results will trickle in over the coming hours. Galvez has not conceded and told her supporters to be patient while waiting for the official results.
Sunday's vote was marred by the killing of two people at polling stations in Puebla state, adding to multiple attacks that have made Mexico's largest-ever elections also the most violent in its modern history. Some 38 candidates were killed, with the violence stoking concerns about the threat of warring drug cartels to democracy.
At home, the next president will be tasked with addressing electricity and water shortages and luring manufacturers to relocate as part of the nearshoring trend, in which companies move supply chains closer to their primary markets. Lopez Obrador has loomed over the campaign, seeking to turn the vote into a referendum on his political agenda. Sheinbaum has rejected opposition claims that she would be a"puppet" of Lopez Obrador, though she has pledged to continue many of his policies, including those that have helped Mexico's poorest.
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