As the United States grapples with the Trump trial guilty verdict, its impact on the election and other ramifications, Mexico is on the verge of electing its first female president. The country’s historic election will be held this Sunday. Current consensus indicates a highly probability it will be a woman who is elected as Mexico’s next president; the two leading presidential candidates — Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez — are both women. Sheinbaum is the current favorite leading in the presidential polls. A scientist and former government leader, she has vowed to make crime and safety her top priority via the creation of a new criminal investigations program for the entire country. Sheinbaum’s opponent, Xóchitl Gálvez, has promised to build a new maximum security prison and to improve the country’s criminal justice system also.1
If a woman is elected, Mexico will join several other countries where women have held a world leadership role. Most notably, Pakistan, India, the UK, Germany, New Zealand and Australia are English speaking countries that have already achieved this. Additional countries with female prime ministers include Iceland, Bangladesh, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Namibia, Aruba, Uganda, Samoa, Greece, Ethiopia, Moldova, Lithuania, Georgia, and The Marshall Islands.2
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