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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico's incoming president, won election June 2. (Source: Shutterstock.com)
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, a physicist of Jewish heritage, overwhelmingly won Mexico’s presidential election on Jun. 2, according to the most recent data published by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE).
With her victory, Morena Party’s Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s first woman president, and the first woman president of North America.
Sheinbaum holds a doctorate in energy engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Sheinbaum isn’t a believer in the “absolute privatization model,” which she said hasn’t worked in Mexico. During her campaign she promised to continue with national and sovereign development plans for the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), which follows the same line as Mexico’s outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who founded the Morena Party.
Crime and violence across Mexico and migrant issues on the U.S.-Mexico border are just some of the major issues Sheinbaum will have to address during her presidency.
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Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, received 60.7% of the votes on Sunday, according to INE.
Xochitl Galvez Ruiz of the Strength and Heart for Mexico Party, the main opposition alliance — made up of the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) —came in a distant second with 28.6% of the vote.
Jorge Alvarez Maynez of the Citizen's Movement placed third with 10.8%.
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