Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as the first woman president in Mexico’s 200-year history.
The President National Electoral Institute spoke with state reporters and disclosed Sheinbaum had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a statistical sample.
Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez pulled between 26.6% and 28.6% of the vote and Jorge Álvarez Máynez garnered 9.9% and 10.8% of the vote.
Sheinbaum’s Morena party was also projected to hold majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Xaudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor said that her two competitors had called her and conceded her victory.
“I will become the first woman president of Mexico,” Sheinbaum said with a smile, speaking at a downtown hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced a statistical sample showed she held an irreversible lead.
“I don’t make it alone. We’ve all made it, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters.”
“We have demonstrated that Mexico is a democratic country with peaceful elections,” she said.
When sworn-in for her six-year term Oct. 1, Sheinbaum will also be the first person from a Jewish background to lead the overwhelmingly Catholic country.
She is however, ineligible to contest for the post after her six-year term as the Mexican constitution doesn’t allow re-election.
Official results would be announced on the 8th of June.
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