Women are “proud” to have voted for the first female president

Puebla, Mexico (EFE). – Several generations of Mexican women felt “proud” to have participated in the elections this Sunday that could elect the first woman president in the country’s history, which they consider “a great advance” in a “masculine” tradition.

Some of them left, very early, to locate their polling station in Puebla (central Mexico) to wait several hours for their turn and participate in an electoral process that has been presented as historic, given that it is the largest election ever held in the country and that the two main candidates are women: Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling party and Xochitl Gálvez of the opposition.

This was indicated by 72-year-old citizen Soledad Cuautle Flores, who shared with EFE that women are going to advance more in political issues, because they are going to demonstrate that they are also capable of leading the country.

“I think we are even ahead because the preparation is equal and even better than the men,” she said.
For her part, Carla López, 36, highlighted the fact that the main candidates for the presidency are women, against the traditional male dominance in the country’s political sphere.

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“We live in a sexist country and right now the choice is between two women, yes or no, nothing more than that, it is very important what is going to happen and what we are going to experience in the future, really in a few hours,” she said…

López stressed in this sense that it is extremely important to analyze who is elected due to the great challenges that Mexico faces: “This is our future, that of our sons, of our daughters, of us and of the violence that we are living with in the country.”

These elections are already the most violent in Mexico’s history, with at least 30 candidates assassinated, making insecurity one of the main axes of the campaign.

Finally, the youngest, 25-year-old Yamilet Aldama, assured that it is time for all women to feel “proud” that they can apply, which she described as “very, very important to demonstrate” the value of Mexican women.

More than 98 million Mexicans are called to vote in Mexico, where more than 20,700 positions are disputed, including the presidency, currently occupied by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as well as 500 deputies, 128 senators and nine state governments.