Mexico is on a path to probably having its first female president! Yes, a macho and prideful nation to consider not only one but two female Presidential Candidates running for the coveted position in 2024.
One of the national political parties, the Morena Party which the current President Obrador is a member of has chosen 61-year-old Claudia Sheinbaum, formerly Mexico City’s mayor. She is a climate scientist and academician who has gotten involved in Mexico’s political scene since 2018. She is of Jewish descent and settled in the area as early as the 16th century. However, it was not until the late 1800s that Jews showed up in sizeable numbers. Today it is reported the Mexican Jewish community totals no less than 40, 000. However sweet the defeat Sheinbaum is being challenged by the runner-up Marcelo Ebrard, who had been the former Foreign Affairs Secretary by questioning the voting process.
The alliance of opposing parties, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), National Action Party (PAN), and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) have chosen 60-year-old Xóchitl Gálvez. She is of indigenous descent, a former street vendor, and educated herself as a computer engineer at the National Autonomous University of Mexico to later found High Tech Services and OMEI tech companies. She has been a Senator since 2018 and continues to serve the public.
Gálvez may have a slight disadvantage but does have the support of the opposition party against the current ruling party Morena. While Sheinbaum has the support of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The Mexican presidential elections are nine months away with the possibility of history being made with the election of Mexico’s first female president.
- However foreign the news may be this is breaking news for a country so rooted in history. The June 2024 presidential vote cannot come soon enough!