With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country’s ruling party in next June’s election, Mexico will for the first time have time two women from its main political movements competing for the presidency. Sheinbaum, as well as the opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, have insisted that Mexico is ready to be led by a woman, but it will not be an easy path. For more on the liklihood of Mexico electing its first female president, despite its notoriously intense culture of “machismo”, FRANCE 24's Tom Burges Watson is joined by Andrew Rudman, Director of the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute.
