Mexico, with Sheinbaum, joins the twenty countries governed by a woman

Claudia Sheinbaumwinner of the elections in Mexico By a large majority, she will become the first president of Mexico in a world where more than twenty countries are currently governed by women.

Sheinbaum thus joins in Latin America the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, wife of former president Manuel Zelaya, who took office in 2022 as the winner of the previous year’s elections, and that of Peru, Dina Boluarte, who also became President. in 2022 in this case by constitutional succession, after Congress removed Pedro Castillo by a self-coup.

Latin America is precisely the first region in the world in which a woman became head of state, María Estela Martínez (1974-1976), who was elected vice president along with her husband, three-time president Juan Domingo Perón, and by mandate constitutional was his successor in the Presidency after his death.

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland was, however, the first female president of a country after winning an election in 1980 and three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which also makes her the non-hereditary head of government. with more years of service.

In Latin America and 16 years after Martínez, in 1990, the Nicaraguan Violeta Barrios de Chamorro assumed the Presidency of her country after winning the elections as the opposition presidential candidate.

Cristina Fernández (Argentina, 2007-2015), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil 2011-2016), Michelle Bachelet (Chile, 2006-2010), Mireya Moscoso (Panama, 1999-2004) and Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica, 2010-2014) were also directly elected at the polls, while Lidia Gueiller (Bolivia, 1979-1980), Rosalia Arteaga (Ecuador, 1997) and Jeanine Añez (Bolivia, 2019-2020) were temporarily in charge of the Presidency by legislative appointment or other powers.

Haitian Ertha Pascal-Trouillot (1990-1991) served as interim president of her troubled country, which has also had two temporary female prime ministers: Claudette Werleigh (1995-1996) and Michele Pierre-Louis (2008-2009).

This is the list of currently serving female presidents and prime ministers:

Presidents

• Peru: Dina Boluarte, president since December 2022.
• Honduras: Xiomara Castro, president of the country since January 2022.
• Iceland: Halla Tómasdóttir, elected president of Iceland, after winning the elections on June 1.
• Greece: Katerina Sakelaropulu, president since January 2020.
• North Macedonia: Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, first female president of North Macedonia, since May 6, 2024.
• Moldova: Maia Sandu, president since December 24, 2020 and the first woman to hold this position.
• Georgia: Salomé Zurabishvili, the country’s first female president, elected in November 2018.
• India: Draupadi Murmu, President of India since July 25, 2022.
• Ethiopia: Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia since October 2018.
• Namibia: Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Prime Minister of Namibia since March 2015.
• Tanzania: Samia Hassan Suluhu, president since March 2021.
• Dominica: Sylvanie Burton, president from October 2023.
• Trinidad and Tobago: Christine Kangaloo, president since March 2023.

Prime Ministers

• Italy Giorgia Meloni: First woman in the history of Italy to become head of the Government. She took office on October 21, 2022 after winning her party’s elections the previous September.
• Lithuania: Ingrida Simonyte, prime minister since November 2020.
• Latvia: Evika Silina, Prime Minister since September 15, 2023.
• Estonia: Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister since January 2021.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Borjana Kristo, Prime Minister since January 25, 2023.
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Judith Suminwa Tuluka, Prime Minister since April 1, 2024, the first woman to hold office.
• Namibia: Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Prime Minister of Namibia since March 2015.
• Equatorial Guinea: Manuela Roka, prime minister since February 1, 2023.
• Barbados: Mia Mottley, Prime Minister since May 2018.
• Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister since January 2009.

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