Former mayor of Mexico City, left-wing candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, is the first female president in Mexican history.
Graduated in energy engineering, born on 24 June 1962 in Mexico City to politically engaged parents, she adopted the slogan of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, "the poor first", aimed among other things at discriminated against indigenous communities.
«I will not disappoint you», his first words after the victory: «For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, there will be a female president and she will be transformative. Thanks to all Mexicans. Today we demonstrated with our vote that we are a democratic people ." Then he thanked his direct opponent, the conservative candidate Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz and the current Mexican president Obrador, whose baton he takes up: «An exceptional and unique man who transformed the history of our country for the better».
A message then to all women: «I'm not arriving alone. We have all arrived, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our ancestors, our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters. Our government will be honest, without influence, without corruption or impunity, it will respect political, social, cultural and religious diversity, gender and sexual diversity and will fight all forms of discrimination ."
Sheinbaum entered politics with current president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, mayor of Mexico City between 2000 and 2006. He entrusted her with the environmental portfolio, of strategic importance in this megalopolis of nine million inhabitants. Already at the university in 2006, the Mexican scientist contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Faithful to her mentor Lopez Obrador, she promised to carry forward the “rescue” of the (public) oil company Pemex, which carries with it a debt of around 100 billion dollars. And it has committed to investing $13.6 billion in renewable energy by 2030.
(Unioneonline/D)