Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico's first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. "For the first time in the 200 years of the republic I will become the first woman president of Mexico," Sheinbaum told supporters to loud cheers of "president, president". "I never imagined that one day I would vote for a woman," said 87-year-old Edelmira Montiel, a Sheinbaum supporter in Mexico's smallest state Tlaxcala. Lopez Obrador has loomed over the campaign, seeking to turn the vote into a referendum on his political agenda. In her victory speech, Sheinbaum thanked Lopez Obrador as "a unique person who has transformed our country for the better".
