{"id":64617,"date":"2024-06-03T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/mexico-election-claudia-sheinbaum-wins-contest-and-is-set-to-become-countrys-first-woman-president-says-official-quick-count\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:18:03","slug":"mexico-election-claudia-sheinbaum-wins-contest-and-is-set-to-become-countrys-first-woman-president-says-official-quick-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/mexico-election-claudia-sheinbaum-wins-contest-and-is-set-to-become-countrys-first-woman-president-says-official-quick-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico election: Claudia Sheinbaum wins contest and is set to become country’s first woman president, says official quick count"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s election and is set to become the country’s first woman president, according to an official quick count.<\/p>\n

The ruling party candidate had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote – an unassailable lead, a statistical sample showed, according to the National Electoral Institute.<\/p>\n

Opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez, a female rival, received 26.6%-28.6% and Jorge Alvarez Maynez picked up 9.9%-10.8%.<\/p>\n

Speaking outside a hotel in the capital Mexico City, Morena candidate Ms Sheinbaum said: “I will become the first woman president of Mexico<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

She said her two competitors had called her and conceded she had won.<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old scientist, who is a former mayor of Mexico City, campaigned on continuing the political course set over the last six years by her mentor President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who was elected in 2018.<\/p>\n

She has vowed to carry on with his policies, including a universal pension for the elderly and a programme paying youths to undertake apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

Ms Sheinbaum said: “We will dedicate public funds to continue the president’s social programmes.”<\/p>\n

She also said there would be a “friendly relationship” with the United States and “we will always defend Mexicans” in the US.<\/p>\n

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She must balance promises to increase popular welfare policies while inheriting a large budget deficit and low economic growth.<\/p>\n

Mexico’s election was its biggest ever, with more than 20,000 congressional and local positions up for grabs, according to the National Electoral Institute.<\/p>\n

It was also its bloodiest in modern history<\/strong><\/a> after the number of assassinated candidates reached 38 before Sunday’s vote.<\/p>\n

Ms Sheinbaum has vowed to improve security but has given few details, and analysts said organised crime groups expanded and deepened their influence during Mr Lopez Obrador’s term.<\/p>\n

The country’s constitution prohibits the president from being re-elected.<\/p>\n

Ms Sheinbaum is the first woman to win a general election in the US, Mexico or Canada.<\/p>\n

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Mexico is a nation known for its macho culture and is home to the world’s second biggest Roman Catholic population, which for years pushed more traditional values and roles for women.<\/p>\n

“I never imagined that one day I would vote for a woman,” said 87-year-old Edelmira Montiel, a Sheinbaum supporter in Mexico’s smallest state Tlaxcala.<\/p>\n

“Before we couldn’t even vote, and when you could, it was to vote for the person your husband told you to vote for. Thank God that has changed and I get to live it,” she added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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