Left-winger Sheinbaum becomes Mexico's first female president after winning by a landslide
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM will become Mexico’s first female president after winning last week’s election by a landslide, official results showed today.
Ms Sheinbaum, a leftwinger who is the favoured successor of outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — widely known as Amlo — vowed to continue in the direction set by the still very popular incumbent. Nonetheless, she offers a sharp break from Mexico’s male-dominated political culture.
“I promise that I am not going to let you down,” she told a crowd of supporters in Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo.
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