This election could also be the largest in the country's history, with 100 million Mexican voters or more expected to cast their ballots in 2024.
Whoever wins Mexico 's general election Sunday could be making history, as the country is poised to elect its first woman president.
Not only are Mexicans likely to elect the first woman to the presidency, they're also deciding on hundreds of seats in their Senate and Chamber of Deputies, as well hundreds of other seats in their 31 state elections and Mexico City. "This election is going to be an election in terms of whether you want to continue the AMLO legacy through Sheinbaum or you want something completely different through Xochitl Galvez," said University of Houston political science professor Jeronimo Cortina, who studies Latino politics in the U.S. and is a native of Mexico.
Sheinbaum, who holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and is a former mayor of Mexico City, holds a comfortable lead in the opinion polls over her nearest rival. At a rally mid-May she mused at accusations that her party was being too far left and authoritarian. Political observers in the U.S. also argue AMLO has sewed distrust in public institutions like the judiciary and the electoral agency that runs the general election.Mexico's historic elections will likely put a woman in power AP via Scripps News 5:05 AM, May 28, 2024 AMLO's brand of politics, some argue, amounts to left-leaning economic policies and a hodgepodge of populism.
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