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Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico’s first woman president in a historic win, exit polls suggest. Pollsters predicted that the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City had won 56% of the vote in Sunday’s election, convincingly beating her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez. Ms Sheinbaum’s Morena party has already claimed victory. However, Ms Gálvez urged her supporters to wait ...

The leading candidates in Mexico ‘s presidential election have held their final campaign rallies ahead of the vote on Sunday. Either Claudia Sheinbaum, a close ally of left-wing incumbent Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or Xóchitl Gálvez, a former senator for the country’s main centre-right party, is almost certain to become the country’s first female leader. Ms. Sheinbaum, the clear favourite, ...