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Monday, June 3, 2024
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Monday, June 3, 2024
‘I will become the first woman president of Mexico’: Sheinbaum says competitors have conceded
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Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters after the polls closed during general elections in Mexico City, early Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Mexico’s projected presidential winner Claudia Sheinbaum says her two competitors had called her and conceded her victory.
“I will become the first woman president of Mexico,” Sheinbaum says with a smile, speaking at a downtown hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced that a statistical sample showed she held an irreversible lead.
“We have demonstrated that Mexico is a democratic country with peaceful elections,” she said.
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