Mexico on track to elect its first woman president after the ruling party chooses its candidate
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's ruling party on Wednesday named former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate in next year's presidential race — a widely expected move that puts the country on track to elect its first woman president.
The major opposition coalition had already chosen another woman, Xóchitl Gálvez, a sitting senator in the Mexican Congress, as its standard-bearer.
The two women — Sheinbaum, 61, a physicist and former university professor, and Gálvez, 60, a successful tech
