Thousands celebrated Claudia Sheinbaum's historic victory as Mexico's first woman president, filling downtown with song and flags.
Thousands celebrated Claudia Sheinbaum's historic victory as Mexico's first woman president, filling downtown with song and flags.
Maria de los Angeles Gordillo, a 37-year-old member of the Tojolabal Indigenous community, said she was moved to tears as she listened to Sheinbaum speak overnight Sunday into Monday. Sheinbaum, a scientist by training, won around 58-60 percent of votes, according to preliminary official results from the National Electoral Institute, which estimated turnout at 60 percent.That was more than 30 percentage points ahead of her main opposition rival Xochitl Galvez, and some 50 percentage points ahead of the only man running, centrist Jorge Alvarez Maynez.
More than 450,000 people have been murdered and tens of thousands have gone missing since the government deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006.Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, will take office in October as leader of a country with a long history of male domination and mistreatment of women. Another big issue she will address is the disparity between what men and women earn.
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