MEXICO CITY.- More than two months after his election, Claudia Sheinbaum received on Thursday from the authorities of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of Mexico the certificate that accredits it as President-elect following the validation of the June 2 elections.
The process represents the last step that Claudia Sheinbaum had to follow before her inauguration on October 1, when she will assume office as the first female president of Mexico for the period 2024-2030.
Upon receiving the certificate of majority vote, Sheinbaum celebrated that her election took place in the midst of a “peaceful, democratic and free” day and recalled that the mandate given to her by the majority of Mexicans was to continue and advance the political project that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began in 2018.
“No one should be afraid,” said Sheinbaum, assuring that she will govern with a “broad sense” of justice, will not allow the return of the neoliberal system and will continue to build peace in Mexico. “The war against drugs will not return,” she said.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico
“I address the Mexican nation with profound patriotism, knowing that this act will be recorded in the history of Mexican democracy, to tell them: Mexico has broken the glass ceiling with this session,” declared Monica Soto, the president of the Court, at the event.
The electoral magistrate stressed that Sheinbaum is the “first woman to assume the supreme mandate of the republic, after 200 years and 65 men in office” following the election. “Mexico has moved forward and elected its first female president,” she said.
In her speech, Mónica Soto lamented the deaths that occurred during the electoral process and recalled that “violence, polarization and hatred undermine democracy and freedoms.”
Before the start of the event, supporters of Sheinbaum and the opposition gathered outside the Electoral Tribunal in the south of the Mexican capital, which generated moments of tension.
Morena demonstrations
While a group of Morena protesters shouted slogans in favor of the future president, an opponent from the opposite sidewalk responded through a loudspeaker: “lie, it’s not true, nothing is resolved.”
The electoral authorities delayed issuing the certificate of majority of votes and the declaration of validity of the elections because the Superior Chamber of the court had to previously discuss several appeal actions, which included more than two hundred non-conformity lawsuits against district counts and a process in which the nullity of the election was requested, according to that body in a statement.
Challenges to election dismissed
All claims were dismissed and it was confirmed that Sheinbaum won the presidential election by receiving 35.9 million votes representing 59.76% of the votes cast, said the Electoral Court in unanimously declaring the validity of the victory of the candidate of the ruling Morena party.
Sheinbaum won by more than 30 percentage points over her closest rival, Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, a candidate from an opposition coalition. Gálvez filed a challenge to the process with the Electoral Tribunal, alleging that López Obrador intervened in the elections and that public resources were used in favor of Sheinbaum.
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2024-08-21 06:56:29
