“For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, there will be a woman president and she will be transformative.”
“For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, there will be a woman president, and she will be transformative. Thank you to all Mexicans. Today we demonstrated with our vote that we are a democratic people,” she celebrated the victory. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who was elected to lead the Mexican government on Sunday, June 2. And she emphasized: “I don’t come alone, we all come. We come with our heroines who gave us a homeland, with our ancestors, our mothers, daughters, and granddaughters.”
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences extends its congratulations on such a resounding victory to Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, with whom we shared activities and the stage at our 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference at UNAM in Mexico in June 2022, including the opening ceremony where the audience greeted her with shouts of “President, President.”
Karina Batthyány with Claudia Sheinbaum at #CLACSO2022
The former head of government of Mexico City, a politician, scientist, and academic, won with nearly 60% of the vote, leading the "Let's Continue Making History" alliance, comprised of Morena, the Labor Party (PT), and the Green Party of Mexico (PVEM). This victory reaffirms the continuity of the process of change initiated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018. "Let's Continue Making History" not only won the presidential race but also strengthened its majorities in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies and triumphed in Mexico City and in 7 of the 8 governorships up for election.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo She is a founder of the Morena party. She served as Head of Government of Mexico City from December 5, 2018, to June 16, 2023, and was the first woman elected to hold that office. During her term, among other government actions, she declared a "gender alert" in the city in 2019 and established the SOS hotline *765. Years later, she emphasized that the alert had established a zero-impunity policy, in addition to initiatives such as the Lunas program, through which female lawyers provide legal counsel to women who have suffered violence and are filing complaints with the Public Prosecutor's Office. In the area of higher education, the Rosario Castellanos Institute of Higher Studies and the University of Health were created during her term. Previously, she served as Secretary of the Environment for the Federal District from 2000 to 2006 and as Borough Chief of Tlalpan from 2015 to 2017.
The InfoCLACSO session on Wednesday, May 29, was dedicated to the elections in Mexico and included analysis by Karina Batthyány, Executive Director of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, and of José Gandarilla Salgado y Darío Salinas Figueredo, members of the CLACSO Steering Committee.
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