During Monday’s morning press conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) highlighted the importance of the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the first female president of Mexico.
“Yesterday I already congratulated her. I am very happy because you can imagine what it means to hand over the presidency to a woman after 200 years of republican life in which only men governed Mexico since 1824,” he said.
How did AMLO lose? I thought he was popular.
He didn’t lose, he just cannot serve another term. She belongs to his party and he effectively campaigned for her. His popularity greatly helped boost her in the election. As a result of this election AMLO’s party now has such a historic majority in government that the liberal media is fearmongering about how this may even give them a mandate to change the constitution.
Thanks. It would be dope if they get a clear majority and use it to change the constitution.
The liberal media have already been portraying AMLO as a dictator for his “populist” policies, if his party tried to change the constitution to make it more leftist all the liberals would go crying to the US for intervention and regime change.
Liberals are already seething. Guessd in Mexico we are not “civilized” enough for a female president.
The first female president in north america
write better headlines smhnot true, in north america she’s actually the 5th elected female president, and 8th elected female leader overall! (maybe many USians don’t know but North America includes everything above South America, including Central America and the Caribbean)
NA countries that have elected a female president (excluding countries where the presidency is only a figurehead role):
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Costa Rica
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Haiti
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Honduras (incumbent)
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Nicaragua
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Panama
NA countries that have elected a female PM (excluding countries where the prime ministry is only a figurehead role):
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Barbados (incumbent)
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Dominica
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Jamaica
unelected leaders:
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Canada (interim PM)
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Haiti (interim president, tried to coup the government)
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