Mexico’s President-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced yesterday that he would explain by letter, through his social networks, why he did not invite the king Philip VI at his inauguration on October 1. This Wednesday, he kept his word. Sheinbaum justified that the king did not respond to the letter that José Manuel López Obrador sent him in 2019 so that apologize for the “grievances” of the conquest.
In a statement released on his social networks, Sheinbaum explained that last July “a diplomatic note was sent” inviting the Spanish president Pedro Sanchez at the inauguration and she herself spoke about it with the head of the Executive “a few days ago.”
The president-elect recalled that the current tenant of Los Pinos sent a letter to Felipe VI in March 2019 in which, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of independence in 2021proposed that “the Kingdom of Spain express in a public and official manner the recognition of the grievances caused” during the conquest.
“Unfortunately, This letter received no direct response.as would have been in line with the best diplomatic practice in bilateral relations,” he lamented.
Tuesday’s decision had an immediate response. In Madrid, the Foreign Ministry considered the exclusion “unacceptable,” and in response, it announced to Mexicans that there would be no government representative at the ceremony. This is a historical anomaly between two countries with fraternal ties. But it is a predictable move in the Federal District, with the agenda of the outgoing president, Sheinbaum’s political godfather, on the table.
Since 2019, the populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He limits his references to Spain to the “times of the conquest.” His attacks on Felipe VI are more or less frequent because of Madrid’s deaf ear to his historical revisionism. López Obrador has not gone so far as to compromise bilateral relations between the nations. But, with the new mandate of his heir, Mexico has sent a strong message.
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