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.
I don’t know those two, but the idea of a scientist as president sounds awesome.
Crazy! Just read this morning that Mexico descriminalized abortion in the whole country and now this! As a Mexican, I am kind of proud.
Mexico has always had some of the highest number of women in their legislature compared to the rest of the world.
It’s kind of surprising it took this long.
Did some wikipedia sleuthing on their politics.
Gálvez seems to have jumped from a conservative right-winger party to a progressive socdem/demsoc (wikipedia lists both) one and is running as an independent.
Sheinbaums background is in the progressive socdem/demsoc one
Looks like I’m moving to Mexico.
Oh, phew! I first read that as “Mexico to set on fire first female president in 2024” Congrats Mexico. (For the female president, not the imaginary fire)
Yeah but are they going to be good presidents? That’s all that matter in the end
