Mexico is on course to elect its first woman president

Mexico's two main political groups have chosen women presidential candidates, setting up an unprecedented election next year.

The main opposition, the Broad Front for Mexico, chose Xóchitl Gálvez, an outspoken senator, to represent their coalition.

And the governing Morena party picked the former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, to be its nominee.

That means — barring any upsets by a third-party candidate — Mexico will elect a woman president, shattering the glass ceiling in a notoriously patriarchal country.

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