Mexico Elects Claudia Sheinbaum as Its First Female President

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s projected presidential winner Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first female president in the country’s 200-year history. “I will become the first female president of Mexico,” Ms. Sheinbaum said with a smile, speaking at a downtown hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced a statistical sample showed she held an irreversible lead. “I don’t make it alone. We’ve all made it, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our mothers, our daughters, and our granddaughters.” “We have demonstrated that Mexico is a democratic country with peaceful elections,” she said. The National Electoral Institute’s president said Ms. Sheinbaum had between 58.3 percent and 60.7 percent of the vote, according to a statistical sample. Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez had between 26.6 percent and 28.6 percent of the vote and Jorge Álvarez Máynez had between 9.9 percent and 10.8 percent of the vote. Ms. Sheinbaum’s Morena party was also projected to hold majorities in both chambers of Congress....