Claudia Sheinbaum wins Mexican presidential election

The landslide victory of Claudia Sheinbaum at the Mexican presidential election is a reflection of the widespread popularity of the economic and social welfare programs enacted by her predecessor, in a country with a poverty rate of around 40%.

Latin American voters continue to reject liberal politics by handing the leftist Morena party its second consecutive presidential victory.

Approximate results confirmed a long expected landslide victory for Morena, who enjoys an estimated 59% to 27% lead over the conservative coalition, with 10% estimated for the center left Citizens' Movement Party.

While immigration mainly affects Mexico's border states, and drug-fueled insecurity plagues a handful of poor regions, the national story of Mexico is one of broad voter unity and hope.

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Claudia Sheinbaum has been given a clear mandate to continue long-repressed social and economic redistribution programs, which are now credited with giving Mexicans a historic confidence in their national government and the most economic optimism of any major economy according to the OECD.

Our optimism is something I can easily explain; the economy has gotten better for the average Mexicans.

There were a lot of shortages before Lopez Obrador, but now we have much more economic independence.

To put it simply, our floor has gotten higher and that means a lot for so many.

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One of the biggest changes in the past six years is a new promise of social and economic support.

This is a major change for Mexico and one which has helped the poor and the lower middle class.

Previous governments forget about us, but this is why the Morena party won so many votes today.

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Claudia Sheinbaum, who follows one of the most popular politicians in the world, Lopez Obrador, is a longtime leftist activist, an environmental scientist who shared in a Nobel Prize, and, the former mayor of Mexico City.

Claudia Sheinbaum is a woman who is very prepared, much more so than our previous presidents.

 Above all, she knows that that power resides in the people and she is truly close to the Mexican people.

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Sheinbaum is the first woman to be elected president in Mexico, which has had a constitutional requirement since 2019 that political parties put forward equal numbers of male and female candidates for national, municipal and judicial government positions.

I feel very excited because this is the first female president in North America.

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Mexico is close to a Western world where political dissatisfaction and disunity is the norm, but it continues to chart its own path as the second wave of the Pink Tide continues to wash over Latin America.

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