IN MEXICO, IT'S SHEINBAUM:...Claudia To Be Country's First Woman Prez...She Won Handily... Promises To Augment AMLO's Legacy...No Felony Conviction Trailing Her...

 

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...The result was no great surprise. Mexico had two options in selecting a candidate for its next president: Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena Party or Xóchitl Galvez, the one postured by a grouping of several parties.

Sheinbaum will be Mexico's next president after Sunday's election.

This from The Associated Press: [ "I will become the first woman president of Mexico," Sheinbaum said with a smile, speaking at a downtown hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced a statistical sample showed she held an irreversible lead. "I don’t make it alone. We’ve all made it, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters."

"We have demonstrated that Mexico is a democratic country with peaceful elections," she said.

The National Electoral Institute’s president said Sheinbaum had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a statistical sample. Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez had between 26.6% and 28.6% of the vote and Jorge Álvarez Máynez had between 9.9% and 10.8% of the vote. Sheinbaum’s Morena Party was also projected to hold majorities in both chambers of Congress. ]

The Sunday vote was something of an affirmation for outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). Critics still abound to many of his policies, including his decision not to go after the Mexican drug cartels.

That hands-off is likely to remain in place, as Sheinbaum has said little about Mexico's continuing headache.

The 61-year-old Sheinbaum will begin her presidency on October 1...

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