Primarily based on the preliminary outcomes, the Mexican electoral authority introduced that the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico Metropolis, Claudia Sheinbaum obtained 58-60 % of the votes in Sunday’s elections.
Based on the BBC, this end result represents an almost 30 % benefit over its major rival, Xóchitl Gálvezzel towards.
Sheinbaum might change his political mentor on October 1, Andrés Manuel López Obrador outgoing president.
The scientist-turned-politician promised continuity, saying he would proceed to construct on López Obrador’s steps. He additionally mentioned in his victory speech: “I can’t allow you to down.”
Sheinbaum’s Jewish maternal grandparents immigrated from Bulgaria to Mexico fleeing the Nazis, his paternal grandparents got here from Lithuania. The mother and father of the long run president had been additionally scientists.
Sheinbaum studied physics earlier than incomes a doctorate in power engineering. He spent years at a analysis laboratory in California learning power consumption patterns in Mexico and changing into an professional on local weather change.
With this expertise and pupil activism, he finally obtained the place of Mexico Metropolis’s Minister of Atmosphere on the time when Andrés Manuel López Obrador was mayor of the capital. In 2018, she turned the primary feminine mayor of Mexico Metropolis, a place she held till 2023, when she resigned because of the presidential election.
