As Mexico heads to the presidential elections in 2024, the candidate of the ruling party has been announced. Mexican Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has been selected as the ruling party's presidential candidate.
Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, was determined as the candidate after many polls. Claudia Sheinbaum said, "The Mexican people have made their decision; we will win in 2024."
Sheinbaum previously ran for president in 2006 and 2012 but was not elected.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic. Sheinbaum served as Head of Government of Mexico City, a position equivalent to that of a state governor, from 2018 to 2023. Elected as the candidate of the leftist Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, she was both the first woman and first Jewish person to be elected to the position. She is a candidate for President of Mexico in the 2024 Mexican general election.
Who is the opposition candidate?
The candidate of the opposition party in Mexico was Senator Xochitl Galvez. Galvez, the candidate of the opposition party, served in various positions in the state even though she was a computer engineer. It is known that Galvez served as mayor and Senator in Congress. Thus, for the first time in Mexico, two female candidates will compete for the presidency.
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
Born in 1962, Sheinbaum is a scientist, academic, and politician. Sheinbaum previously served as mayor of Mexico City. Claudia Sheinbaum has many academic articles written on the subjects of environment, energy, and sustainable development.
December 2018
Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female mayor of Mexico's capital, Mexico City, was sworn in.
Sheinbaum, Mexico City's first female mayor, has promised to build cable cars in poor neighborhoods and improve bus and subway services.
Stating that there is no need for riot police teams in the city, the new mayor of the capital said, "The police are there to protect the people, we do not need a police force to suppress them."
Sheinbaum also stated that new residences will be built for people who lost their homes and apartments in the earthquakes of 2017.
Sheinbaum, who has a doctorate in environmental engineering, is one of the people close to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took the oath of office on December 1.
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Mexico edges closer to electing first woman president
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