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Mexico City elects first Jewish mayor
July 3, 2018
(JTA) – Mexico City elected a Jewish woman as mayor Sunday — setting two firsts for the largest city in North America.
A woman had previously been appointed Mexico City’s mayor on an interim basis for a year in 1999, but Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is the first woman to be publicly elected to the office.
The city, home to around 50,000 Jews, has also never had a Jewish mayor.
Sheinbaum, 55, the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Bulgaria, is a scientist who holds a doctorate in engineering and physics. She is a member of the leftist National Regeneration Movement party and has close ties to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the party’s leader and Mexico’s newly elected president.
Mexico City elects first Jewish mayor
July 3, 2018
(JTA) – Mexico City elected a Jewish woman as mayor Sunday — setting two firsts for the largest city in North America.
A woman had previously been appointed Mexico City’s mayor on an interim basis for a year in 1999, but Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is the first woman to be publicly elected to the office.
The city, home to around 50,000 Jews, has also never had a Jewish mayor.
Sheinbaum, 55, the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Bulgaria, is a scientist who holds a doctorate in engineering and physics. She is a member of the leftist National Regeneration Movement party and has close ties to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the party’s leader and Mexico’s newly elected president.