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Mexico First Woman President
FILE - Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum arrives to vote in the general election, in Mexico City, June 2, 2024. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, will be sworn in as Mexico’s first woman president on Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Who is Claudia Sheinbaum, the scientist who will head Mexico as its first female president?

Claudia Sheinbaum is Mexico’s first female leader in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence

By AP News
Published - Oct 01, 2024, 12:13 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:46 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum takes office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence.

The 62-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist campaigned on a promise of continuity, of protecting and expanding the signature initiatives of her mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

In the four months between her election and inauguration she held that line, backing López Obrador on issues big and small. But Sheinbaum is a very different person; she likes data and doesn’t have López Obrador’s backslapping personal touch.

Mexico now waits to see if she will step out of his shadow.

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