Fecha Publicación: 06-06-2024

Mexico made history on June 2, 2024, when it elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum. These elections were the largest in Mexico’s history, with representatives for more than 20,000 public office positions at the congressional and local levels chosen, according to the AP. Election results are likely to be finalized later this week, but Sheinbaum was declared the winner of the presidential election based on a very high margin of victory in preliminary results reported late on June 2.

SIS Distinguished Diplomat in Residence and former US Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne was on the ground in Mexico City serving as an election observer. We caught up with Wayne to ask about what he saw while observing the election and what these preliminary results mean for the nation’s future.

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