Will Mexico Get Its First Jewish President?

The polls don’t tell everything, especially if the election isn’t due for another year. Despite this, things are looking good for Mexican Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. Morena in his party (a comp National Revival Movement, Movement for National Rebirth), he was a pioneer. This is a very important step on his way to the presidency of Mexico, as Morena’s candidacy is the clear winner. In short, Sheinbaum is fast becoming First Lady Inside He became the first Jewish head of state in a country the size of Western Europe with a population of 130 million.

The 1962 daughter of chemist Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselewitz and biologist Annie Bartow Semo (a politician with Ashkenazi and Sephardi roots) had no such problem. If he wasn’t used to dealing with large numbers as a physicist, he certainly would be as the mayor of Mexico City, North America’s largest city of over 9 million people. By the way, most people of accumulation fall Mexico CityWith 21 million people, it is the sixth largest in the world outside of a mayor’s jurisdiction.

Barring her fellow party member Andrés Manuel López Obrador from being re-elected — the Mexican constitution allows a head of state to serve only one term — Sheinbaum has set her sights on the presidency of the world’s ninth most populous country. If he succeeds in that, he will break one record after another. Never before had a Jewish woman been the head of state for so many subjects.

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Scheinbaum can best be described as politically center-left. With a strong environmental connotation, it is not yet the norm in Latin America. So she has the background for that. He received his doctorate in energy engineering after four years of research at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. In the second half of the 1990s and early 2000s, Scheinbaum was a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. of The best university in the country. Since 2007 he has served on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the same year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Never before had a Jew or a Jew been the head of state of so many subjects

Scheinbaum was already politically active during his college days. In 2000 he became an Alderman, also known as the ‘Minister’ of Ecology – of Mexico City under the mayorship of future President López Obrador. In 2015 he became mayor of Tlalpan, one of the fourteen boroughs of Mexico City. Three years later, he became mayor of the metropolis, in which he devoted himself mainly to ecology, infrastructure and poverty reduction. The same issues will be at the forefront of his presidential campaign. Being an alliance candidate is the biggest obstacle Let’s make history together (belonging to his Morena party). The name seems fitting for Claudia Sheinbaum, as it means ‘Together we write history’.