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CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM IS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF MEXICO  
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Zoe Alexandra
June 3, 2024
Peoples Dispatch
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_ Sheinbaum, the first woman president of Mexico and North America,
has vowed to continue the anti-neoliberal project of the “Fourth
Transformation” inaugurated by President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador, led by the principle of “Mexican Humanism”. _

Claudia Sheinbaum at her campaign launch,

 

Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum won the presidential election in Mexico on June
2, making her the first female president of Mexico. The scientist,
public servant, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and longtime activist ran
with the “Let’s Continue Making History” Coalition composed of
the Movement for National Regeneration (MORENA), the Labor Party (PT),
and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico. With between 58.3% and 60.7%
of the vote, the highest in the history of Mexican democracy,
Sheinbaum defeated Xóchitl Gálvez Ruíz
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was the candidate of the right-wing Force and Heart for Mexico
Coalition of PRI-PAN-PRD. Jorge Álvarez Máynez came in third with
around 10% of the total vote share.

Sheinbaum addressed thousands of supporters in the Zocalo in the
center of Mexico City to celebrate her victory. “I feel excited and
thankful, for the recognition that you have given to the Fourth
Transformation of public life of Mexico. Here as we have always done,
I promise to not let you down. Today, the people of Mexico have made
possible the continuity and advance of the Fourth Transformation, and
also for the first time in 200 years, we women have arrived to the
presidency of the Republic!”

Earlier in a press conference, Sheinbaum also announced that MORENA
had achieved a majority in the Chamber of Deputies and was set to also
win a majority in the Senate. Clara Brugada, the former mayor of
Iztapalapa, won the race for head of government of Mexico City.

Sheinbaum’s party MORENA had announced her victory in a press
conference about an hour and a half after polls had closed and all
major exit polls projected her victory with a 2:1 margin, which they
characterized as an irreversible trend. The President of MORENA, Mario
Delgado, had stated, “Today sovereignty, independence, and democracy
have also triumphed. The people have shown that they will not be
deceived, not with hate campaigns nor with lies. The votes defeated
the bots!”

The National Electoral Institute (INE) began to release results of the
quick count at 8:00 pm (Mexico City time). Just before midnight on
Sunday, the Council President of the National Electoral Institute
(INE), Guadalupe Taddei Zavala, released a message
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based on the preliminary results of the rapid count, Dr. Claudia
Sheinbaum is set to win the presidency with a wide margin over
right-wing candidate Xóchitl Gálvez. She added that between
58.9-61.7% of the electorate had participated in Sunday’s local and
federal elections.

Tensions had begun to rise in the period after voting when
conservative candidate Gálvez Ruiz, instead of accepting her
overwhelming defeat, confirmed in the exit polls and the preliminary
results of INE, called on her supporters to remain vigilant and
suggested
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fact the winner
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published a series of tweets, echoing the same messages of
“vigilance” and wrote
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you to go to bed thinking that they beat you. They lie like always.”
Analysts had been alerting to a situation wherein Gálvez would “cry
fraud” and attempt to undermine the results of the election in light
of her predictable defeat.

However, this narrative was quickly debunked after the official
results confirmed the landslide victory of the MORENA candidate. When
Sheinbaum announced her victory, she confirmed that Gálvez had called
to congratulate her moments earlier.

CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM VOWS TO CONTINUE MAKING HISTORY

Sheinbaum will be the first woman president of Mexico and North
America, and has vowed to continue the project of the “Fourth
Transformation” inaugurated by President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador, led by the principle of “Mexican Humanism”. The
anti-neoliberal socio economic project has had enormous success across
Mexico in raising the standard of living for the majorities in the
country through the increase in minimum wage, expanded social and
economic programs to increase access to key rights of education,
housing, healthcare, and more. AMLO will finish his term in office
with a 80% approval rating, according to Gallup polls.

Sheinbaum spoke about the importance of the 4T project in an
interview
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Dispatch _and_ BreakThrough News_ in April 2023, “states have to
give the rights to the people. What do we think is a right? Education,
health, a home, pension for all the elders. We also believe in
strategic areas of the economy such as energy. The state has to be
part of this, especially electricity, oil and mainly and now
lithium…it’s important and it’s going to be very important in
the future…You cannot have private investment measured only by GDP
or international investment. You have to measure investment, public
and private, in wealth for the people. And that’s the big difference
with neoliberalism that believed that everything was going to be
solved by the market.”

Mexico’s northern neighbor, the United States, is its most important
trading partner. During AMLO’s six-year term, he managed to maintain
a mostly amicable relationship with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden,
but also did not shy away from holding his ground on key issues. For
example, as president, AMLO was one of the strongest voices on topics
which directly contradict US policy such as the US blockade of Cuba,
the imprisonment and persecution of Julian Assange, and the
subordination of the region to corporate and imperialist interests.
AMLO was also a driving figure in reinvigorating spaces of regional
integration
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served as pro-tempore president of the Community of Latin American and
Caribbean States (CELAC). How Sheinbaum relates to her northern
neighbor and the rest of the region will be a defining feature of her
presidency.

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