Claudia Sheinbaum took office this Tuesday as first female president of Mexico for the six-year period from 2024 to 2030, during a ceremony at the Chamber of Deputies in the presence of nearly twenty international leaders and hundreds of representatives of countries and multilateral organizations.
“Honorable Congress of the Union, people of Mexico, I protest to uphold and enforce the political Constitution of the United Mexican States and the laws resulting therefrom, and to exercise loyally and patriotically the position of president of the republic that the people have bestowed upon me,” Sheinbaum said.
The outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorpresented the presidential sash to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Ifigenia Martínez, who presented the tricolor garment to Sheinbaum, the first woman who will govern the country after more than 200 years of republic. Sheinbaum took office amid cries of “president, president” and “it’s an honor to be with Claudia today!”, echoing “it’s an honor to be with Obrador!”
After the Congress session, Sheinbaum will travel to the National Palace, where he will eat with invited leaders, including 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 in attendance will be personalities such as the First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs, Joseph Borrell.
Spain, absent at the inauguration
There will be no Spanish representation during the ceremony, since the new president decided not to invite King Felipe VI, something that the president Pedro Sanchez was classified as a fact “absolutely unacceptable“.
Thanks for the help from Sumar and Podemos
The new president thanked six Spanish deputies for their presence during her inauguration. Concretely, it is Gerard Pisarello (Add), Irene Montero (Can), Ana Ponton (Galician Nationalist Bloc), Jon Iñárritu (EH Bildu), Ada Colau (Common) and Javier Sanchez Serna (Can).
