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Mexico’s New President Achieves Historic Victory
Claudia Sheinbaum rode a massive wave of support to become the first female — and Jewish — President of Mexico.
“Claudia Sheinbaum Elected as Mexico’s First Female President,” reported José de Córdoba, Anthony Harrup, and Steve Fisher for the Wall Street Journal on June 3, 2024.
“Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, will become Mexico’s first female president after romping to victory in an election billed as a referendum on the leftist policies of departing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a vote that handed his party enough power in Congress to push through controversial constitutional changes,” they wrote.
President-elect Sheinbaum didn’t just achieve victory; She achieved the type of majority mandate that U.S. politicians can only dream of.
“Sheinbaum, the candidate of the ruling Movement of National Regeneration, known as Morena, had 58.6% of the votes with 73% of the ballots counted, according to official results from Mexico’s election agency,” reported Córdoba, Harrup, and Fisher for the WSJ.
With the victory has come plenty of hand-wringing about what such a majority might accomplish, however.
The WSJ noted that Sheinbaum’s “Landslide win gives ruling party the power to push through constitutional changes…