This is Claudia Sheinbaum, the first president of Mexico.

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Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo She made history by becoming Mexico’s first president on October 1, 2024.

At 62 years old and with a decades-long political career, Sheinbaum comes to the presidency with the intention of continuing the policies of his predecessor. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

On June 2, Sheinbaum Pardo celebrated an important milestone by sweeping elections with 35 million 924 thousand 519 votes, even surpassing AMLO in 2018 when he received 30 million 113 thousand 483 votes.

And this Tuesday, between the screams “president, president” and “I’m honored to be with Claudia today!”, as an echo of “I’m honored to be with Obrador!”, Sheinbaum suggested in San Lazaro.

Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?

He was born June 24, 1962 in Mexico City.

Your dad Carlos Sheinbaumwas a businessman and chemist whose Ashkenazi Jewish parents came from Lithuania to Mexico in 1920. His mother Annie Pardobiologist and doctor whose parents, Sephardic Jews, came from Bulgaria in 1940.

Both are sons of persecuted Jews. Both are leftist UNAM militants.

Pardo actually received a National Science Award in 2022 for his contributions to cell biology. The new president insisted on emphasizing her scientific background. He has a doctorate in energy science.

He studied at the South Campus of the College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) and then joined the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

It was in 1989 when she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics with a thesis. “Thermodynamic study of a wood stove for rural use.”

In 1991 he received a master’s degree in energy with a thesis “Economics of the efficient use of electrical energy in lighting.”

Only a few years later, in 1995, he received his PhD from UNAM in Energy Engineering with a dissertation on “Residential Energy Trends and Prospects in Mexico,” which he prepared after an academic internship at the University of California, Berkeley.

From UNAM researcher to politician with Lopez Obrador

Sheinbaum says he met López Obrador at a meeting at his home, a week after his candidacy to lead the Federal District was announced in 2000. Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), which she joined in 1989.

A few days later, Lopez Obrador invited her to join his administration as Minister of the Environment with the task of solving the problem of environmental pollution.

Thus, from 2000 to 2006, Sheinbaum led the construction of the metrobus and the first bicycle paths in the Mexican capital.

She later served as a spokeswoman for the presidential campaign of López Obrador, who lost elections in 2006 and 2012, during which time she built the movement that would eventually become the Morena Party, of which Sheinbaum was also a founder.

After the door-to-door campaign, as she boasts in several videos, In 2015, she served as a delegate to Tlalpan. internal demarcation of the south of the capital.

In 2018, she became the first woman elected to lead the Mexican capital and left that position in 2023 to run for president.

Last year, Sheinbaum received the “team baton” from the hands of the president, Morena’s symbol, which means that she now supports López Obrador’s movement.

Now the winner of the June 2 presidential election will become the face of this “fourth transformation.”