A woman will lead the country for the first time in history. President López Obrador’s successor has won a second term for the National Regeneration Movement and stifled the conservative coalition’s aspirations

Mexico has a new president. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, 61, is the firstwoman to win a presidential election in the 200 years since the country’s independence.

It was a historic election day in many ways. With a turnout close to 61%, the successor of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador achieved between 58.6% and 60.7% of the vote, according to the quick count, a mathematical extrapolation based on voting records collected throughout the country that usually yields accurate results. The percentage obtained by Sheinbaum exceeds the 53% achieved by Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018, quite an achievement for a candidate with less political charisma.

Many questioned whether a sexist country like Mexico was ready to have a female president. The results at the ballot box proved that it is.

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    Yea, I wish we had a candidate that good on the American or Canadian ballots.

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      canadians, maybe; but american’s can only vote for a “lesser evil” at best, so that’s never going to happen.

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        It starts with voting in primaries for better candidates when it’s not a matter of life or death.

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        The US FPTP system makes voting for anyone except a major party candidate a disastrous choice, unfortunately.

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          Voting for either major party is an endorsement of the FPTP voting system, pledging you will not make it change. That’s a disastrous choice.