Claudia Sheinbaum: The first woman to govern Mexico City

She promises to improve the quality of life of Mexico City residents

Although she is not the first woman to hold office (Rosario Robles did it before on an interim basis on 1999 and 2000), she is the first to gain governorship through the popular vote.

With 56 years and a rather sober style - she is rarely seen smiling at a public event and she is always seen wearing jeans, white shirt and a scarf on the neck - Sheinbaum does not meet the stereotypes of the average politician.

Born in a Jewish family in a mainly Catholic country - her grandparents emigrated from Lithuania and Bulgaria - Sheinbaum nevertheless received a secular education.

And her first passion, like that of his parents, was not politics but science: she studied Physics and Energy Engineering at the UNAM, obtained a PhD at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (United States) and was part of the Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN, the team that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Via: BBC

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