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What Mexico’s first female president might mean for the ‘femicide nation’

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September 13, 2023

What Mexico’s first female president might mean for the ‘femicide nation’

Source: The Week

Barring any surprises, Mexico will elect its first ever female president next year.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the “climate-scientist-turned-politician” who served as mayor of Mexico City, has been selected ahead of five male rivals as the candidate of the governing left-wing Morena party, said The Guardian.

She will be challenged by Xóchitl Gálvez, who “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”.

Click here to read the full article published by The Week on 11 September 2023.

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Barring any surprises, Mexico will elect its first ever female president next year.

Claudia Sheinbaum, the “climate-scientist-turned-politician” who served as mayor of Mexico City, has been selected ahead of five male rivals as the candidate of the governing left-wing Morena party, said The Guardian.

She will be challenged by Xóchitl Gálvez, who “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”.

Click here to read the full article published by The Week on 11 September 2023.

Region
Author
Rebekah Evans
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