MEXICO:...Southern Neighbor To Get 1st Female President...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

MATAMOROS, Mexico | Mexico cracking the political glass ceiling for women? Mexico, and not the supposedly more-advanced United States of America, the home of the brave and the land of the free? Well, yeah. Mexico's a happening place these days.

It will elect its first woman president next year.

Bank it.

That's the ruling party's (Morena) candidate in photo above. Her name is Claudia Sheinbaum.

This from politico.com: [ The former mayor of Mexico City will be the dominant ruling party’s presidential candidate, moving the country closer to electing its first female president next year.

The decision driven by polls of Morena party members means that Claudia Sheinbaum will run as the party’s candidate in the June election. Mexico’s constitution bars outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from a second six-year term.

Morena national council president Alfonso Durazo said Sheinbaum beat former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard by double figures in five party surveys.

Sheinbaum is a close ally of the popular López Obrador and as Morena’s candidate she will enjoy a distinct advantage in June.

". . .I’m excited," Sheinbaum said, thanking each of her competitors by name with the exception of Ebrard who was not present. "I feel very proud, very honored" to have been part of this movement since its inception.

Last week, a broad opposition coalition selected female lawmaker Xóchitl Gálvez as its candidate. ]

Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, was hit with the criticism earlier this year that she is not Mexican enough, but she fielded that deftly by saying, "I am more Mexican than menudo."

She's a do'er and a toughie.

The odds of winning the Mexican presidency are definitely in her favor, says this observer...

-30-