Claudia Sheinbaum, 61 years previous, is the candidate of López Obrador’s ruling left-wing alliance, ‘Sigamos Haciendo Historia’ (‘Let’s maintain making historical past’, ed.), the successor to the ‘Juntos Haremos Historia’ alliance with which the present president entered the 2018 elections.
Sheinbaum, a physicist and environmental engineer, enjoys a superb repute in Mexico for her scientific analysis. In 2007, she was a member of the UN local weather panel IPCC, which obtained the Nobel Peace Prize in the identical yr along with former American presidential candidate Al Gore.