Mexico's Sheinbaum wins landslide to become country's first female president

Record ID: 1821775

  • Title: Mexico's Sheinbaum wins landslide to become country's first female president
  • Date: 3rd June 2024
  • Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (JUNE 2, 2024) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** MEXICAN PRESIDENT ELECT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM WALKING ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MEXICAN PRESIDENT ELECT, CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, SAYING: “According to the preliminary results given by the National Electoral Institute, the difference (for the winner) of the presidency surpasses 30 points. It
  • Embargoed: 17th June 2024 07:51
  • Keywords: Claudia Sheinbaum Mexico election president results supporters zocalo
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: South America / Central America,North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001687530052024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico's first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.
    Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico's electoral authority. That is set to be the highest vote tally percentage in Mexico's democratic history.
    "For the first time in the 200 years of the republic I will become the first woman president of Mexico," Sheinbaum told supporters on Sunday night (June 2) to loud cheers of "president, president."
    Sheinbaum has promised to expand welfare programs, maintain austerity within the country, give autonomy to the Bank of Mexico and promote private investment.
    Victory for Sheinbaum is a major step for Mexico, a country known for its macho culture and home to the world's second biggest Roman Catholic population, which for years pushed more traditional values and roles for women.
    Sheinbaum is the first woman to win a general election in the United States, Mexico or Canada.
    (Production: Lais Morais, Alberto Fajardo, Nina Lopez)
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