Mexico’s first woman president inherits debt and violence

Mexico City | Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico’s first woman leader in a landslide victory on Monday (AEST), capitalising on the popularity of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) while also inheriting rampant criminal violence and a large fiscal deficit left by his government.

The former mayor of the nation’s capital and candidate for the ruling Morena party won Sunday’s (Monday AEST) election by a margin of at least 30 percentage points, according to the nation’s electoral authority. It was a crushing blow for the main opposition led by Xochitl Galvez and further consolidates the party AMLO founded as Mexico’s dominant force.

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