蜜桃交友

By James Blears

According to Mexico鈥檚 Electoral Council, Claudia Sheinbaum has won the presidency with between 58 and 60 per cent of the vote. She is the Candidate of the leftist Morena Party, created in 2011 by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Her nearest rival Xochitl Galvez, the candidate of a broad spectrum of parties, has already called to congratulate Claudia and concede defeat.

Sheinbaum will start work on 1 October, serving a single, non-renewable six-year term. 

She herself said: 鈥淚鈥檝e said it from the start. This isn鈥檛 just about me...it鈥檚 about all of us getting here. I won鈥檛 fail you.''

A trained physicist and environmental engineer, Claudia served her political apprenticeship as Mayor of Mexico City from 2018 to last year. Her upcoming job will see her leading the world鈥檚 second-largest Catholic country. She is promising to increase social welfare programs, particularly developing the pension system for the elderly.

She鈥檚 facing the massive, daunting, and agonizing problem of the drug cartels. More than 185,000 people have been killed during the past six years. Concerning relations with Mexico鈥檚 giant northern neighbour, the United States, president-elect Sheinbaum is promising mutual respect and equality, and to always defend Mexicans on the other side of the border. 

Women finally secured the right to vote in Mexico seventy years ago.