Mexico appears on verge of getting its first female president

Mexican voters are awaiting the results of yesterday's historic national elections, expected to yield the country's first female president.



The two frontrunners are both women: leading candidate Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena party and opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez. An ally of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum is a former Mexico City mayor and scientist who pledged to continue López Obrador's popular economic policies and expand scholarship opportunities for students. Gálvez is a former senator and Indigenous affairs official committed to expanding welfare programs and investing in renewable energy. Both plan to extend López Obrador's popular pension program for seniors.