Government candidate Claudia Sheinbaum is projected to win Mexico’s presidential elections, according to voter surveys conducted by El Financiero financial newspaper and broadcaster Televisa after polling stations closed on Sunday evening. A close ally of incumbent President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum from the left-wing ruling Morena party would become the country’s first female president if elected. Her main opponent is Xóchitl Gálvez, a candidate backed by a broad alliance of the three biggest opposition parties. A third candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez from a smaller party, is se…