Mexico: Sweeping victory for the President – She didn’t vote for herself – 2024-06-04 16:47:31

“I cannot allow you to down”: mentioned the candidate of the ruling left within the Presidential Elections in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, who’s elected by a large margin the primary girl president within the nation’s historical past and can now be known as to face the nice challenges of the violence of smuggling of medicine and violence towards ladies.

Sweeping victory

The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico received a landslide victory with 58% to 60% of the vote, in line with first partial outcomes from the Nationwide Electoral Institute (INE), which organized the vote.

The opposition’s presidential candidate, former center-right senator Socil Galvez, conceded in a single day the victory of her leftist rival.

“A couple of minutes in the past, I known as Claudia Sheinbaum to acknowledge the end result of the election,” Galvez mentioned in a speech to supporters at a Mexico Metropolis resort.

“For a real welfare state”

Additionally benefiting from the outgoing president’s reputation, Scheinbaum leads by about thirty factors over Gálvez, who has between 26% and 28% of the vote, in line with the primary outcomes introduced by INE president Gadalupe Tadei.

The centrist Jorge Alvarez gathers between 9.9% and 10.8% of the vote.

“We are going to proceed to construct a real welfare state,” Sheinbaum mentioned in her first assertion as president-elect to supporters.

The previous Mexico Metropolis mayor will take over from her political mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on October 1 for a six-year time period till 2030.

The primary feminine President

She is going to turn out to be the primary feminine President within the historical past of a rustic that recorded a median of ten murders of ladies per day in 2023, in line with UN information.

A complete of 70% of ladies over the age of 15 in Mexico have confronted violence no less than as soon as of their lives, in line with the identical supply.

She did not vote for herself

Voting in Mexico Metropolis, Sheinbaum hailed a “historic day.” She mentioned she didn’t vote for herself within the presidential election, however for a pioneer of the Mexican left, Iphigenia Martinez, 93, as a tribute to her wrestle. “Lengthy dwell democracy!” Sheinbaum concluded.

The problem of drug trafficking

The granddaughter of Jews who had fled Nazism and poverty in Lithuania and Bulgaria, Sheinbaum should face the problem of violence related to drug trafficking.

Mexico has for years averaged greater than 30,000 homicides per yr, about 80 per day.

Three-quarters of homicides are linked to conflicts between legal organizations for management of native drug markets, present president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claims.

“We are going to lead Mexico on the trail of peace and safety,” mentioned the president-elect.

She promised to assault the causes of the violence, strengthen the Nationwide Guard and undertake a coverage of “zero impunity” for violence.

Supply: APE – MEB