[1/5] Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum gestures as she speaks on the day of the announcement of the results of an internal national polling which declared Sheinbaum as the presidential candidate, in Mexico City, Mexico September 6, 2023. loadingSheinbaum and her mentor, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a trenchant critic of the establishment before he took power, would not meet until years later. On Wednesday, MORENA said Sheinbaum, who in June stood down as Mexico City mayor to pursue the nomination, would be its candidate to succeed Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador regularly lambasts adversaries at daily news briefings. Lopez Obrador appointed Sheinbaum city environment minister, and she became a close ally.

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Persons: Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, Sheinbaum, Raquel Cunha, Claudia Sheinbaum, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, MORENA, Lopez Obrador, Marcelo Ebrard, Xochitl Galvez, Antonio Ocaranza, Ernesto Zedillo, Carlos Salinas, Mexico's, Salinas, Lopez, Rene Cervera, Ebrard, Cervera, Dave Graham, Diego Ore, Aurora Ellis Organizations: Mexico City Mayor, REUTERS, Trade, National Regeneration, Mexico City, Reuters, Stanford University, Institutional Revolutionary Party, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Mexican, Tabasco, MORENA