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As Claudia Sheinbaum, the front-runner in Mexico’s presidential election, arrives for a rally in a packed park in the colonial city of Orizaba, the crowd starts to chant "Presidenta!"
Those attending are convinced that is what she is about to become: Mexico’s first ever woman president.
The polls suggest they may well be right.
With her closest rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, also a woman, and the only man in the presidential race a distant third, Mexico is almost certainly set to break centuries of male domination of the country’s highest office.
Xóchitl Gálvez is the candidate for a coalition of opposition parties
In fluent English, Ms Sheinbaum, who belongs to the governing Morena party, says the fact that both leading candidates are women is a sign that Mexican society is finally evolving.
“It’s a symbol for Mexico. I think it’s also a symbol for the world,” she told the BBC.
“Mexico has been called a machista country for many years. But Mexicans are now governed by many women and that’s a change,” says the former mayor of Mexico City, referring to the gender parity in the cabinet and the high number of women serving as state governors.
“I see young girls who are excited that a woman is going to be president. And it changes the culture for women and for men.”
Claudia Sheinbaum wants to become the first female president in Mexican history
Mexico is a country where around 11 women a day are murdered on average and Ms Sheinbaum was quick to acknowledge that more needed to be done to reduce violence against women.
May God Bless and may Claudia Sheinbaum be the winner.
Xochitl Galvez is an unfortunate woman who hates Mexico, and is the worst candidate of the 21st century.
Xochitl Galvez is a Bastard Without self-dignity
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