'Huge change': Mexico expected to elect first woman president
Source: New Vision
MEXICO - Mexico is on course to elect its first woman president this weekend, with two front-runners competing to break the highest political glass ceiling in a country with a history of gender violence and inequality.
Ruling-party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum and opposition hopeful Xochitl Galvez, both 61, have dominated the presidential race in the world's most populous Spanish-speaking country, home to 129 million people.
The only man running, Jorge Alvarez Maynez, is trailing far behind with just days left before the Sunday vote.
"It's a huge change," said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University, in the United States.
"A woman president will be an inspiration for women in every single sector of the economy, politics, society and culture," she told AFP.
Read here the full article published by New Vision on 27 May 2024.
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MEXICO - Mexico is on course to elect its first woman president this weekend, with two front-runners competing to break the highest political glass ceiling in a country with a history of gender violence and inequality.
Ruling-party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum and opposition hopeful Xochitl Galvez, both 61, have dominated the presidential race in the world's most populous Spanish-speaking country, home to 129 million people.
The only man running, Jorge Alvarez Maynez, is trailing far behind with just days left before the Sunday vote.
"It's a huge change," said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University, in the United States.
"A woman president will be an inspiration for women in every single sector of the economy, politics, society and culture," she told AFP.
Read here the full article published by New Vision on 27 May 2024.
Image by New Vision