Government will not attend inauguration of Mexican president after “unacceptable exclusion” of King Felipe VI

The Spanish government has announced that it is refusing to attend the inauguration of Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, due to the “unacceptable exclusion” of King Felipe VI from the guest protocol.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement Tuesday night to publicly declare that it “rejects the exclusion of HM the King from the inauguration of the president-elect of Mexico,” while taking the opportunity to communicate “that it will not send” any representative.

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s inauguration is scheduled for Monday, October 1, following her victory in the presidential elections held in Mexico last June.

It is a tradition that King Felipe VI attends the inaugurations of Ibero-American heads of state, but the Foreign Office has indicated that this time it will not be the case due to his “unacceptable exclusion from the invitation.”

For this reason, he announced that, given the rejection of the presence of the Spanish head of state, the Spanish government “has decided not to participate in any inauguration at any level.”