Mexico elects first woman president

[reader]

From CNBC

Mexico’s left-leaning climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum has secured enough votes to become the Latin American country’s first-ever female president.

The country’s electoral institute published a rapid count estimate late Sunday night saying that Sheinbaum had won the presidential election. The estimate has a margin of error of +/-1.5%, the institute said.

A protégé of her long-time ally and mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum is now poised to succeed AMLO when his six-year term as president comes to an end on Oct. 1.

In a speech after the preliminary results, Sheinbaum said the government will have “republican austerity, financial and fiscal discipline and autonomy,” according to a CNBC translation, adding that the country “will never have an authoritarian or oppressive government.”

 

[Latbear4blk]

Viva la Revolución Mexicana, carajo!

[floridarob]

and the peso took a hit today on her winning.....the polls clearly show the uneducated, which there are plenty, preferred her.....Trumps words ring true, politicians love the uneducated.

[Mavica]

One more corrupt Mexican politician in a long line of them.