Following her landslide victory in Mexico’s June presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum was officially inaugurated as president on Tuesday. The first woman president in Mexican history, Sheinbaum will be the second president in a row from MORENA, the party founded by her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in 2014.
The day played out in two parts. At 11:30 a.m., Sheinbaum arrived at the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico’s lower house, for the ceremonial passing of the presidential sash. In scenes reminiscent of AMLO’s inauguration in 2018, both Sheinbaum and López Obrador were cheered along by well-wishers amassed in front of their residences and lining the route to Congress as they passed in their cars. In her speech, the presidenta began by linking two fundamental concepts. “On June 2,” she announced, “the Mexican people, democratically and peacefully, said loud and clear: it is a time for transformation, and it is a time for women.” After paying tribute to AMLO and laying out her policy platform, she returned to the theme:
Arriving with me are the women who could raise their voices and those who could not, those who had to remain silent and those who shouted alone, the indigenous, the domestic workers who left their pueblos behind to help others, the great-grandmothers who did not learn to read and write because school was not for girls, our aunts who found in solitude the way to be strong, the anonymous women, the anonymous heroes who from their homes, the street, or in the workplace struggled to see this moment, our mothers who gave us life and then give it all to us again, our sisters who, with their stories, succeeded in emancipating themselves, our friends and companions, our beautiful, strong daughters and…
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Auteur: Kurt Hackbarth
