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Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, is the descendant of Jewish immigrants to Mexico. She will be the first woman and first Jewish president in Mexico's 200-year history

The elections were viewed as a referendum on outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist known for expanding social programs but struggling to reduce cartel violence in Mexico. Sheinbaum, his protégé, pledged to uphold all of his policies