Claudia Sheinbaum is the first ‘president’ woman from Mexico: “I won’t disappoint you”

The newly elected president was head of the government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023 and now, at 62 years old, she has promised to give continuity to the "progress" achieved with her social policies

ROME – “I will not disappoint you”: words of Claudia Sheinbaum, first woman to win the right to lead Mexico. According to the results released by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (Ine), the candidate of the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) obtained at least 58 percent of the votes.
Physicist, engineer and researcher, nicknamed “the doctor”, Sheinbaum is the grandson of Jewish grandparents who lived in Lithuania and Bulgaria before their families were forced to flee Europe by Nazism. The newly elected president was head of the government of Mexico City from 2018 to 2023 and now, at 62 years old, she has promised to give continuity to the “progress” obtained with her social policies by the outgoing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, forced to leave because the Constitution does not provide for more than one mandate at the head of the State.

Supporters of Sheinbaum and Morena celebrated in the “Zocalo”, as the Plaza de la Constitución, the heart of Mexico City, is known.
The newly elected president surpassed other candidates for the highest office. Her main rival, the former senator Xochitl Galvez, from the conservative area, stopped at 28 percent of the votes.