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
has been going on for hundreds of years. it brought whales to the brink of extinction in the 19th and early 20th century. but an international moratorium was agreed in 1986 to allow whale numbers to recover. iceland objected to it and decided to restart commercial whaling in 2003. its biggest customer was japan, untiljapan itself pulled out of the international whaling commission in 2019, resuming hunting for whales itself. it left icelandic whalers with much less to do. it also seems that people in iceland are less keen to eat whale meat. so, with demand falling and the cost of hunting rising, the government has said there is little proof of any economic advantage to this activity, and it will end in two years when the current quota finishes. so could the only other whaling nations, norway and japan, follow iceland s lead ? the reasoning for keeping a fishery for whales active