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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Becomes Mexico's First Female President in 200 Years

Web Desk‌Updated: Wednesday Oct 2, 2024
Mexico > Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, a leftist, will be sworn in as Mexico's first female president on Tuesday.  The physicist Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has been elected president of Mexico following a landslide victory on 2 June. She gained more than twice as many votes as her nearest opponent, the computer engineer Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz.
 
Sheinbaum Pardo, 61, was born on 24 June 1962 and both of her parents were scientists. Her mother, Annie Pardo Cemo, is a biochemist while her father, Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz, is a chemical engineer.
 
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