Claudia Sheinbaum will mark Mexico’s history today by becoming the first woman to assume the presidency of a country governed by men since the establishment of the Federal Republic 200 years ago.
According to the information released, at around 09:00 local time activities will begin in the Legislative Palace of San Lazaro, the seat of the Congress of the Union and the place of the investiture ceremony, with the establishment of positions by the various parliamentary groups.
After other actions planned for the ceremony, the president of the Congress, Ifigenia Martínez, will ask Sheinbaum to be sworn in as constitutional president of Mexico before the Congress and, subsequently, the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will hand over the presidential sash.
The new president will then give her first message to the nation and, in the afternoon of the same day, she will hold a rally in the capital’s Zócalo.
Presidents, prime ministers and other high-ranking officials from more than 100 countries and 22 international organisations are in the country for the inauguration, including the presidents of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Chile, Gabriel Boric.
The presidents of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, and Paraguay, Santiago Peña, as well as the prime ministers of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Bucharaya Hamudi Beyun, and of Belize, John Briceño, and the presidential advisor of the Haitian Presidential Transitional Council, Régine Abraham, also arrived.
Also, the Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China, Tie Ning; the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell; and the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Natalia Kanem.
In addition, the presidents of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, and the United States delegation, headed by Jill Biden, wife of President Joe Biden, are also in the Aztec nation, among others.
The first woman to occupy the Presidency of Mexico won a landslide victory in the elections of 2 June, in which she received more than 35.9 million votes and became the most voted candidate in the country’s recent history, with a huge lead over her rivals.
Standard-bearer of the alliance of the National Regeneration Movement, Labour and Green Ecologist parties in the electoral race, with landslide victories in Congress and the governorships, the former head of government of Mexico City (2018-2023) promises to continue López Obrador’s transformational project.
I am also very happy because tomorrow I will hand over the presidential sash to an exceptional woman, full of love, humility, good feelings, a humanist, said yesterday the outgoing governor, who has repeatedly highlighted Sheinbaum’s intelligence and capacity for the high office.
