It's the Brian Larris show.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Tiffany Hansen, filling in for Brian, who is off today.

We're now going to turn to a few major elections around the world.

Historic ruling parties in India and South Africa are

holding onto power, but just barely. And in Mexico, a historic first. The country elected

its first woman president, Claudia Shanebaum. And in the UK, the election cycle began yesterday

with a televised debate. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is fighting for a narrow but substantial polling gap.

Last night, it appeared he adopted an aggressive approach against his Labor Party opponent.

Joining us now to discuss all of this and more is Eve Fairbanks, senior editor at Foreign Affairs and the author of The Inheritors,

an intimate portrait of South Africa's

racial reckoning. Welcome to WNYC, Eve. Thanks. Hi, Tiffany. Nice to talk to you. And listeners,

of course, we want to invite you in this conversation. Do you have ties to Mexico, India,

South Africa, the UK, or have you been following the European parliamentary elections?

You can help us report this story with some reactions you're getting from folks on the ground

in those countries, maybe some voters that you know, people you know there.

What do you think will be some of the biggest challenges for those leaders in that country

that you have a tie to?

You can call us at 212-433 WNYC. You can also text us at

212-433-9-692. Eve, let's start with Mexico. On Sunday, Claudia Shanebaum was elected overwhelmingly.

She's an environmental scientist, former mayor of Mexico City, the first female president. What else do we know about her?

Yeah, so she's an energy scientist originally, had a lot of interesting work that she did on that, then got involved in politics and became kind of a protege of Oberdor,

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