Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum to Step Down Ahead of 2024 Elections
- She wants to be party nominee and is currently ahead in polls
- Morena, the party the president founded, has wide support
Claudia Sheinbaum, mayor of Mexico City, during a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sunday, June 11, 2023.
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Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will resign from her post on June 16 to start her presidential campaign ahead of next year’s election.
“I have made the decision to permanently resign from my post on June 16 with the purpose of becoming the first female in the history of Mexico to be president,” Sheinbaum announced during a press conference Monday.