Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, was elected as Mexico’s first female president on Sunday.
Sheinbaum, of the Morena party and the heir-apparent to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), won 58.6% of the votes with 73% of the ballots counted, Mexico’s election agency reported.
Candidate Xóchitl Gálvez garnered 28.4% of the vote and conceded defeat, while Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from the center-left Citizen Movement, won 10.6% of the vote. Galvez warned, “I want to stress that my recognition (of Sheinbaum’s victory) comes with a firm demand for results and solutions to the country’s serious problems.”
“Morena and its allies also appeared headed for a two-thirds majority in Congress needed to make constitutional changes without opposition support,” The Wall Street Journal reported, adding that it was the “first time a Mexican leader will have…
