Women win of primaries mean Mexico's next President will likely be a woman

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MEXICO CITY - Half of Mexico's Congress is female. The cabinet is gender-balanced. And now, women have won the primaries of the two leading political blocs - making it likely that this traditionally macho nation will elect its first female president, ahead of the United States.


Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, who until recently served as Mexico City's mayor, defeated five men to secure the nomination of the governing party, MORENA, its officials announced Wednesday. If the leftist candidate triumphs in the election next June, she also will set another precedent, as Mexico's first Jewish head of state.

Her victory came days after an opposition coalition, the Broad Front for Mexico, nominated Xóchitl Gálvez, 60, a business executive and senator of Indigenous origin.

"This is a feminist's dream," said Maricruz Ocampo, a women's rights activist in the central city of Querétaro. The 2024 race, she said, "is going to signify a turn in the way that we see women in politics."