Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 8:40 p.m.
The leftist Claudia Sheinbaum took office this Tuesday as the first female president in the history of Mexico. In a ceremony held in the Chamber of Deputies, attended by almost twenty international leaders and hundreds of representatives of countries and multilateral organizations, he was sworn in for the six-year term from 2024 to 2030. No official representative of the Spanish State was present. as King Felipe was not invited and the Government of Pedro Sánchez decided not to send any delegates as a protest.
«Honorable Congress of the Union, people of Mexico, I promise to keep and ensure that the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and the laws that emanate from it are kept, and to loyally and patriotically carry out the position of president of the republic that the people have conferred on me. », declared Sheinbaum. The outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), handed the presidential sash to the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ifigenia Martínez, who placed the tricolor garment on Sheinbaum, the first woman to govern the country after more than 200 years. years of being a republic. Sheinbaum took office amid shouts of “president, president” and “it’s an honor to be with Claudia today!”, as an echo of “it’s an honor to be with Obrador!”
After the session in Congress, Sheinbaum went to the National Palace, where he ate with the invited leaders, among whom were the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; from Chile, Gabriel Boric; from Colombia, Gustavo Petro; from Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and from Honduras, Xiomara Castro. Also attending were personalities such as the first lady of the United States, Jill Biden; and the high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell.
In the afternoon she received the baton of command from the indigenous peoples in the Zócalo of Mexico City, the largest public square in the country, where the new president will have her first massive event as head of state and gave a speech.
“A peaceful feat”
Legislators from the Mexican ruling party highlighted the historical nature of Claudia Sheinbaum’s investiture. During the beginning of the solemn ceremony in which she assumed office, Ricardo Monreal, coordinator of the deputies of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), highlighted in his speech that “Sheinbaum will become the first head of Government and head of State of the Mexican Republic” to govern from 2024 to 2030 after 66 male presidents. “Mexico achieved a peaceful, exemplary civic feat, the majority of the people placed their trust in us, ratified hope and generated conditions for an overwhelming victory,” said Monreal.
The leaders of the various parliamentary groups established their position moments before Sheinbaum received the presidential sash that will be delivered by the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in the Congress of the Union.
The “fourth transformation”
Sheinbaum’s allied formations, Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), asked to continue with the “fourth transformation” of the country’s history that, according to their perspective, López Obrador began. Reginaldo Sandoval, leader of the PT deputies, pointed out that Sheinbaum “is not just any woman,” but “a leftist woman, made on the left, trained on the left, with leftist principles and, without a doubt, the builder of the second floor of the ‘fourth transformation’. «Today we say that Mexico is different and if we start and begin the construction of a new regime, we are changing the State. I have no doubt that the Executive Branch was transformed to put it at the service of the people,” he declared.
Meanwhile, Manuel Velasco, leader of the PVEM in the Senate, highlighted that on June 2, Sheinbaum also became the “most voted president in the history of the country” with almost 36 million votes. Likewise, he highlighted that the former head of Government of Mexico City (2018-2023) is a scientist, environmentalist, and a woman prepared and trained in social struggle.
From early on, hundreds of people waited for the popular celebration planned in the Zócalo. On a day declared festive, Marta Rosa Ramírez Masías, a housewife who arrived at the investiture at five in the morning after a long bus trip from León (center), said that she was pleased to have a president who “understands more to the citizens.
“It is time for women and transformation,” Sheinbaum has said on numerous occasions, in a country with a heavy history of discrimination and gender violence, where about ten women are murdered daily.
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