- The president promised to “guarantee all freedoms” and denied possible “militarization” in Mexico in her speech in the Chamber of Deputies
Claudia Sheinbaum She took office on October 1 as the first female president of Mexico for the period 2024-2030. The swearing-in took place in the Chamber of Deputies, attended by international leaders and hundreds of representatives from 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 that emanate from it, and to loyally and patriotically carry out the position of president of the republic that the people have conferred on me. ”Sheinbaum declared when taking the oath.
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 is an honor to be with Claudia today!”, as an echo of “it is an honor to be with Obrador!”
After the session in Congress, Sheinbaum will go to the National Palace, where he will have a meeting with the invited leaders, among whom are 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.
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, will also attend.
Sheinbaum will also receive the baton of command of the indigenous peoples in the Zócalo of Mexico City, the largest public square in the country, where the president will have her first massive event as head of state and will give a speech.
Sheinbaum promises to “guarantee all freedoms” and denies “militarization” in Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum promised upon taking office that her government “will guarantee all freedoms,” and denied that a “militarization” of public security and a return to the “war on drugs” will occur.
“I tell you: in our government we will guarantee all freedoms, freedom of expression, of the press, of assembly, of mobilization. Freedom is a democratic principle and we are democrats, human rights will be respected and we will never use the force of the State to repress the people,” he declared in his first speech.
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum
Sheinbaum was born in Mexico City, is 61 years old and is of Jewish descent and of Lithuanian and Bulgarian origin. In addition, she is the second daughter of a couple of scientists: her father was a chemist and her mother is a biologist.
Annie Pardo, Claudia’s mother, comes from a family of assimilated Sephardic Bulgarian Jews who arrived in Mexico in 1942. Pardo was the first woman of Jewish descent in the Mexican academic world. His father was also dedicated to the marketing of jewelry and was a member of the Communist Party of Mexico.
In the 1960s, Claudia’s parents participated in revolts and protests by labor and student movements.
She married Carlos Imaz Gispert in 1987, but they separated in 2016. The politician remarried in 2023 with Jesús María Arriba, a doctor in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Regarding her political career, in 2000 she was presented as part of the cabinet of Andrés Manuel López Obrador when he served as head of the Mexican Federal District (DF). The engineer assumed the Secretary of the Environment of the DF.
During its management, this secretariat achieved the reduction of pollution rates in the region, the creation of community ecological reserves and the implementation of a sectorization program in the drinking water network.
In 2006 he resigned from his position to join López Obrador’s campaign team for the presidential election that same year, in which Felipe Calderón was the winner.
Sheinbaum participated in 2011 in the creation of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). The following year, López Obrador ran again for the presidential election and included the engineer in his proposal to occupy the national Ministry of the Environment. However, Enrique Peña Nieto won in those elections.
In 2015 she was the first woman elected as Delegational Head in Tlalpan, but in 2017 she left the position after winning the internal consultation for the pre-candidacy of the Head of Government of Mexico City by the Together We Will Make History coalition. In July 2018, she became the first woman elected head of government of Mexico City.
As head of the government in Mexico City, he took some relevant measures, such as the declaration of the gender alert in 2019 due to cases of femicide and enabled an emergency line for situations of gender violence.
With information from EFE.
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2024-10-01 21:19:13