Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum poised to secure supermajority after historic win

The leader of the Morena party could pass legislation and budgets unopposed through congress

* She is poised to become Mexico’s first female president. Can she escape Amlo’s shadow?




Claudia Sheinbaum seems poised to cement her historic victory as Mexico’s first female president with a supermajority in congress that would let her party pass legislation and budgets unopposed – and perhaps even change the constitution without need for compromise.

Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with 59.5% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority. Continue reading...


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