Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female president in Mexico's 200-year history, per the AP. ""I didn't make it alone," Sheinbaum said at a downtown hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced she held an irreversible lead. "We've all made it, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our mothers, our daughters, and our granddaughters." The National Electoral Institute's president said Sheinbaum had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a statistical sample. Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez had between 26.6% and 28.6% of the vote and Jorge Álvarez Máynez had between 9.9% and 10.8% of the vote. Sheinbaum's Morena party was also projected to hold majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, said that her two competitors had called her and conceded her victory. The official preliminary count put Sheinbaum 28 points ahead of Gálvez with nearly 50% of polling places reporting. The fact that the two leading candidates were women had left little doubt that Mexico would make history Sunday. Sheinbaum will also be the first person from a Jewish background to lead the overwhelmingly Catholic country. She will start her six-year term Oct. 1. Mexico's constitution does not allow reelection.
The leftist has said she believes the government has a strong role to play in addressing economic inequality and providing a sturdy social safety net, much like her political mentor, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Sheinbaum's victory suggests that the political movement López Obrador created will live on after his presidency. His anointed successor, the 61-year-old Sheinbaum led the campaign wire-to-wire despite a spirited challenge from Gálvez. This was the first time in Mexico that the two main opponents were women.
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