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Today, a historic first. A woman will be Mexico's next president.

Many hoping that the winner will usher in new winds of change

in a country with a strong patriarchal culture

and where more than 10 famicides take place on a daily basis.

With violence against women still rampant,

what difference will it make?

I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take.

Thank you. I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. My name is Lucia Newman.

I'm Al-Dazira's senior Latin American correspondent, and right now I am in Mexico City,

although I've been sort of all over Mexico lately, but speaking to you right now from the Capitol.

Lucia, welcome back to the take. So voters head to the polls on Sunday for an election that will be historic.

The two frontrunners are women, which means Mexico will very likely have its first woman president.

You have been covering elections in Latin America for a very long time. Does this feel historic

to you? It doesn't really feel historic to me, I'm afraid, and it doesn't feel as historic

as one would think it should be or might be to many Mexican women as well.

You have to keep in mind that these two candidates, and there will be a woman, there's no doubt about that.

I wouldn't even say it's very likely. It's certain that a woman will be elected.

But the fact that the two candidates are women, their gender,

has not played as large a role in the campaign as you would have expected. And secondly,

they were more or less chosen by men. And I think that that's something you have to always

keep in mind. Very much at the latter part of the campaign, I would say, on Wednesday night, when

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