Claudia Sheinbaum, the ruling party candidate, to be Mexican’s first woman president
MEXICO CITY: Most polls closed in Mexico’s election on Sunday with the country expected to make leftist Claudia Sheinbaum, the ruling party candidate, their first woman president. After a day of voting, marred by violence and the killing of two people at polling stations in Puebla state, polls closed across much of Mexico at 6 p.m. local time with the exception of the country’s westernmost time zone which includes the northern Baja California peninsula.
Sheinbaum, who has led in opinion polls over her main competitor Xochitl Galvez, will be tasked with confronting organized crime violence, if elected. More people have been killed during the mandate of outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador than during any other administration in Mexico’s modern history, although the homicide rate has come down over his term.
“Everyone must get out to vote,“ Sheinbaum, a physicist and former Mexico City mayor, said on local TV. “Before we couldn’t even vote, and when you could, it was to vote for the person your husband told you to vote for. Thank God that has changed and I get to live it,“ Montiel added. “She is the most truthful,“ said retiree and Sheinbaum-voter Antonio Cruz, 83, at a park in downtown Monterrey, Mexico’s northern industrial hub.Polls indicate that MORENA, the ruling party of Lopez Obrador and Sheinbaum, will likely fall short of securing a two-thirds majority in Congress. That would make it more difficult for Sheinbaum to push constitutional reforms past opposition parties.
At home, the next president will be tasked with addressing electricity and water shortages and luring manufacturers to relocate as part of the nearshoring trend, in which companies move supply chains closer to their main markets.
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