“She would put Gandhi to sleep,” wrote columnist Juan Ignacio Zavala in El Financiero, referring to the famously truncated slumber habits of the late Indian leader. Unlike her mentor, Sheinbaum is an uninspiring public speaker, sometimes drifting into techno-talk and utopian paeans to her hometown. Three years later, she was elected mayor of Mexico City and he was elected president. She later joined his breakaway political group, the National Regeneration Movement, known as Morena, and was elected in 2015 as borough president of Tlalpan, a district in southern Mexico City. Photos from that era show the tousle-haired academic smiling alongside the dashing insurgent politician. When López Obrador was elected mayor of Mexico City in 2000, he launched Sheinbaum’s political career by making her secretary of environment for the capital. Sheinbaum, who spent four years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on her way to earning a doctorate in energy engineering, was teaching at UNAM in the 1990s when a mutual friend introduced her to him.

Sunday’s election for governor of the state of Mexico could spell the end of the long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party and further cement the dominancy of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party.Īmong the former PRI stalwarts who defected was López Obrador. World & Nation One party has governed Mexico’s biggest state for a century.

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