If Claudia Sheinbaum wins the presidential election on Sunday, she will be the country’s first female, and first Jewish, president.
Already a subscriber?Claudia Sheinbaum was fuming. The presidential candidate held a comfortable lead in the polls as her party’s primary got underway last summer. But one afternoon, as she was entering a hotel for a meeting, she was confronted by dozens of her top rival’s supporters, chanting that the contest was rigged., the official co-ordinating the primaries for her Morena party. “Wherever I arrive, I want to be respected,” she declared, jabbing the table.
The question is whether a Sheinbaum could step out of his shadow and govern a violence-racked country whose political institutions are in flux. Sheinbaum is so closely tethered to AMLO that she sometimes adopts his slow, pause-filled style of speaking. Yet her profile is distinctly different. He frequently cites his Christian beliefs. She’s not religious; she rarely discusses her Jewish heritage. AMLO doesn’t speak English and dislikes travelling abroad. Sheinbaum did postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley; her sister and daughter live in the United States.
Rosaura Ruiz, an academic and family friend, recalls Sheinbaum’s passion for helping the poor. At one point, Ruiz says, Sheinbaum Sheinbaum claims that homicides dropped by half on her watch. Analysts have questioned her figures, noting that a growing number of violent deaths – around 30 per cent – are classified as “undefined,” and not counted in murder statistics. Still, political scientist Rodrigo Pena says, “we’ve seen a very important drop in many crimes.”
Urban policy analysts say she is better known for highly visible projects – bike lanes, electric buses, cable cars to poor neighbourhoods – than for a long-term vision. Her “big political sin” was inadequate upkeep of the sprawling Metro system, says Erika Alcantar, a professor of urban studies at UNAM.
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