Claudia Shainbaum First Mayor Of Mexico City

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

According to polls at the ballot box of local elections in Mexico City, the scientist Claudia Sheinbaum will be elected mayor of the Mexican capital.

Sheinbaum, 56, will be the first female mayor elected to rule the most populous city in North America. The survey revealed that 55.5 percent of the population was in their favor, according to the French Press Agency.

The also environmentalist, was considered the favorite, since her party was together with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who won the presidency on Sunday. Sheinbaum joined AMLO's left-wing political party Morena in 2014.

Although elections in Mexico have tilted in favor of men, more than 3,000 women participated in this year's local and national elections, leading Mexicans to call it "the year of the woman," according to NPR.

Sheinbaum will not be the first woman to head Mexico City since that distinction belongs to Rosario Robles, who served as deputy mayor from 1999 to 2000 when his predecessor, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, resigned to run for president. But she is the first woman chosen by citizens.

On the other hand, the political career of the new elected mayor of Mexico City has not been without controversy: after the earthquake of September 19, 2017, Sheinbaum was among those allegedly responsible for issuing irregular construction permits.

Meanwhile, according to the Financial Times, AMLO comfortably won with between 43 and 49 percent of the vote, according to polls at the ballot box. The New York Times said of his victory "an overwhelming victory that turned the nation's political establishment on its head and gave it a broad mandate to remodel the country."