President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said, this Monday (3), that he was happy with the victory of Claudia Sheinbaum, in Mexico's presidential elections.
The statement was made shortly before the reception for the President of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, at the Itamaraty Palace.
“I am very happy with her victory, because she represents my great companion López Obrador, who ran an extraordinary government and therefore I think the method will be democratically guaranteed. I’m happy to be a woman too,” said the president.
Lula said he should make a call to Claudia Sheinbaum at the end of the afternoon. She takes office on October 1st.
The president also signaled that he should travel to Mexico this year. And it seeks to increase trade flow between the two countries.
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
Known as “la Doctora” for her brilliant academic credentials, Claudia Sheinbaum is a physicist with a doctorate in energy engineering, former mayor of one of the most populous cities in the world and was part of the United Nations panel of climate scientists awarded the Nobel Prize of Peace.
While studying for her degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), she became involved in student politics, protesting the privatization of public education. After graduating, she studied energy engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she became fluent in English and earned a master's degree, before returning to UNAM for doctoral studies.
Sheinbaum entered politics in 2000, when she was appointed Mexico City's environment secretary by Obrador, then head of the city's government.
In 2015, she became the first woman elected head of Mexico City's Tlalpan district, serving until 2017. The following year, she was elected head of the city-wide government – again, the first woman to do so – leaving the position in June 2023 to begin his candidacy for president.
In this weekend's race, Sheinbaum won with about 60% of the vote in the biggest election in Mexico's history, marking an achievement in a mostly Catholic country known for its deeply patriarchal culture.
Source: CNN Brasil
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