With a landslide victory on Sunday, Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico’s first female president, creating history in a nation beset by widespread gender-based and criminal violence.
The 61-year-old, former mayor of Mexico City—a physicist by background—won between 58 and 60 percent of the vote, according to the National Electoral Institute’s announcement following the vote tallying.
That was about 50 percentage points ahead of the sole contender, longshot centrist Jorge Alvarez Maynez, and more than 30 percentage points ahead of her primary opponent, Xochitl Galvez.
In Mexico City’s main centre, thousands of supporters waved flags and celebrated the triumph of the ruling party candidate by singing and dancing to mariachi music.
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