Ruling party candidate and former Mexico City mayor capitalises on outgoing president’s popularity
Ms Sheinbaum said in Mexico City: “I will become the first woman president of Mexico,” shortly after electoral authorities announced a statistical sample that showed she holds an irreversible lead.
The former mayor of the nation’s capital, Mexico City, and candidate for the ruling Morena party is projected to receive between 58 per cent and 63 per cent of the votes, according to three exit polls. Mr López Obrador allowed drug cartels to expand their influence across Latin America’s second-biggest economy, resulting in record murder rates. He also went on a spending spree toward the end of his mandate, writing out welfare checks that made him a hero to the working poor but left the country saddled with the largest fiscal deficit since the 1980s.
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