results in what will be and ears and historic election in mexico, they are now then we, will have those in just a moment. voters are set to elect their first female president. former mexico city mayor claudia sheinbaum, a predicate protege of the outgoing president is projected to win her rivals. so chill galvez, supported by a coalition of opposition parties earlier, she had said she thought she had one, but at this stage, we understand that shinbone is the winner. i understand that we are actually going to bring up our reporter who s standing by gustavo valdez have we got gustavo standing by? gustavo and talk to us about the outcome here? of course, we ve learned that claudia sheinbaum has one. but what was the holdup here well, it was something that the institute of elections called off the first conference about an hour ago, they said there was a glitch the system they assured everybody that it wasn t hacking. but within men as they just announced, their results and the
allowed to hunt and it s exclusive economic zone. and it says that according to its findings, to its research, that whale numbers are abundant now the second argument they make is that whaling has a long culture and history in japan, and it certainly does in certain pockets and certain regions of the country. now the third and final reason which i thought was quite interesting was even though japan knows that whaling is not very popular, right now, it thinks that it can boost consumption once again, if it changes public perception, this is what industry insiders told me marvels of the deep-blue are two others. a meal, whaling in japan is poised for amazing you re come back with the launch of this vessel. this vast new whaling mothership, the kangei maru, cost nearly 50 million us dollars to make, and it just goes to show how japan is not only continuing to hunt whales, but also is trying to revitalize this shrinking
commercially has long been a controversial subject. but japan has continued the practice even amid a decline in, in demand for whale meat. one japanese company has invested millions of dollars to build a massive vessel to re-energize the industry despite warnings from activists that japan may be trying to hump beyond its normal fishing grounds. cnn s hanako montgomery joins me now, live from turkey. good to see you. hannah co so why is japan continuing with whaling despite the controversy? cause it s declining popularity yarrow is very like you mentioned well, meet is not very popular in japan and consumption is actually at a record low, but japan is pushing ahead and trying to revitalize the shrinking industry for really three key reasons. the first, because it argues that it s actually sustainable according to its own research, since japan left the international whaling commission in 2019, it s only
and missiles into the air. so it was kind a double take whatever it is that was happening. but then he came back in again and he said listen, we re going to do something here. and we did. and in fairness to him he got onto a couple media contacts and it just took off. and then i brought in with brendan burn, you see he s involved in the processing site, so all the factories and everything. so we re interlinked in the industry. and look, we re a shrinking industry. we re suffering as it is. we lost 25% of what fish we had before this. with the brexit deal. so when the uk left, they gave them 25% of our fish as a going away present. but we didn t agree with this. and not only that, they gave fish that they were catching in our waters as a present. we re on our knees at the moment as an industry. and i think this was the straw that broke the camel s back. the directors and fishermen at our organization said this is it, we re not moving, we re not taking this. we re not taking it from anyb