Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, is the candidate of the ruling left-nationalist party, Movement for National Regeneration (Morena) Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, 60, is a business leader and politician, who became a senator in 2018, from a modest background. She will have to navigate her personality and an own ideas between her own party and the outgoing president who will maintain control of the Congress.
Mexico is considered by the UN to be the most dangerous in Latin America for women.