Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and senator Xóchitl Gálvez were selected as the candidates for the two major electoral groups

Mexico will almost certainly have its first female president in 2024, after the governing Morena party and the opposition coalition both chose women as their candidates.

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was named Morena’s candidate on Wednesday, despite runner-up Marcelo Ebrard’s last-minute denouncement of the process and demand for it to be redone.

Sheinbaum is a climate scientist-turned-politician who was widely believed to be the preferred choice of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador who is unable to run again.

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Gálvez is a businesswoman who became a senator in 2018 and has seized media attention with her aspirational story of growing up with an Indigenous father and mestizo mother in Hidalgo state, before working her way through public university and into business and politics.

  • young_broccoli
    7•1 year ago

    Friendly reminder that having a woman president doesnt mean things will be different, and I really doubt they will.

    For starters, one of them is partially responsible for the colapse of a school causing the death of 26 people and has left México city fall into disrepair for the last 5 years.
    The other one is a demagogue who says she will fix the country because “she is diferent”, following the steps of our current president by fueling the “us vs them” rethoric he started/boosted.