CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM GAINS SWEEPING MAJORITY IN ELECTIONS FOR MEXICAN PRESIDENT, ELAPSING IN A QUIT SANGUINARY MANNER
Report by Zusmanovich Ulyana
The first female president in the history of Mexico – a country known for profoundly masculine culture being a home to the world’s second biggest Roman Catholic population, since the 16th century. standing for traditional values and specific roles for women. Claudia Sheinbaum – a nobel prize-winning climate scientist, promising to heir Mexico in a swift and correspondingly conducive manner as the previous president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, being his disciple and him being Sheinbaum’s mentor.
Obtaining a secure victory between 58.3% and 60.7% votes she exclaimed that Obrador is “an exceptional, unique man who has transformed Mexico for the better.” In his presidency from 2018 until present, he has doubled the minimum wage, reduced poverty, number of Mexicans living in poverty falling from 52 million to 47 million, strengthening peso, low levels of unemployment, mounting a spectacular campaign to double the pension twice for senior citizens and make a significant increase for scholarship pensions in his 6 six-year term. Scheinbaum, a stout disciple, pledges to lead the country in congruent paces.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador loosened the purse strings in his final year in office to accomplish infrastructure projects and cover the costs of his broad-scaled campaigns. Leaving the state for his disciple with highest negative figures of gross domestic product (GDP) deficit, since 1980’s – 5.9% in 2024 in contrast to 4.3% in previous years. Specialists say, to actualize her social programs, it will be inevitable to make a tax overhaul, which would increment government revenue, despite her claims that she has no plans as such. The task to keep the state robust, nonetheless, is facilitated by the fact that her ruling party – Morena – and allies are forecasted to gain a supermajority in both houses of the Congress.
It should not be left aside to tell about the way in which the elections run. They are stigmatized as one of the most brutal as they elapsed against the background of the cartells battling. According to the consulting company Intergalia, they involved intimidation, kidnapping and even murders, with at least 34 candidates being killed by the hands of criminal groupings. On the 29th of May, a candidate for the mayor of Coca de Benitez was shot during the final pre-election meeting with electorates.
Despite Obrador’s campaign “Abrazos, no balazos” (Hugs, but no bullets), cartells and other criminal groupings only grew and expanded their power. According to the data of IEP (Institute of economy and peace) number of violent deaths incremented nearly by 300% in period of 2015 – 2022. Today Mexico ranks 3rd in the world in the global index of organised criminality, after Miami and Columbia. UN data tell that everyday 9 to 10 women are murdered.
Analyst say that Scheinbaum’s victory is a beag leap forward for the country to deal with a high-rate of gender abuse and profound inequality between man and woman. “Machism” has given birth to economic and social inequality.
Obviously, the presidency of Obrador has its pros and cons, now the question is at hand, what will be the kind of presidency of the new female leader, calling early Monday morning in the heart of Mexico:
“We made history!”
