Claudia Sheinbaum Becomes Mexico’s First President – ​​Telemundo Bay Area 48

MEXICO CITY – From the first minute of this Tuesday, Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to occupy the Presidency of Mexico. He replaces Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the most important political figure of the 21st century in the country.

Even though Sheinbaum is already constitutionally president, a few more hours should pass, 1pm/11am. Mexico time, to follow protocol in the House of Representatives.

There, the former mayor of Mexico City will receive the presidential slip from Andrés Manuel López Obrador, although it will be imposed on her by Ifigenia Martínez, president of the Chamber and one of the historic leaders of the left.

After the official ceremony, which will be attended by more than a dozen leaders from Latin America and representatives of foreign governments, such as the first lady of the United States, Jill Biden, who is attending on behalf of her husband, President Joe Biden, the newly sworn-in president will offer breakfast at the National Palace.

Additionally, at 6 p.m./4 Mexico time, Sheinbaum will lead a mass event in the capital’s Zócalo, the country’s central civic square, which is expected to have the support of the newly appointed leaders of Morena, the party that took power. receiving just over 35 million votes in the June 2 election.

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Neither the activities at the National Palace nor the Zócalo are expected to be attended by former president López Obrador, who on Monday left the place where he led his government and lived since December 2018. He slept at his family’s home on Monday night. to the south of the Mexican capital.

HOW SHEINBAUM BECAME PRESIDENT

Claudia Sheinbaum takes over the Presidency with a 63% positive opinion among Mexicans, as revealed this Monday by a Poligrama company survey published by the EFE agency.

According to the survey, 30.2% of respondents said they had a “very good” opinion of the former head of the Mexico City government (2018-2023), while 33.1% said they had a “very good” opinion of Sheinbaum she is “good”.

In contrast, 24.7% of participants said they had a “poor” opinion of Sheinbaum, and 12% said he had a “very bad one.”

Meanwhile, the majority of respondents (40.5%) felt that the president-elect should focus on the country’s security as a priority. While 25.6% said they should focus on the economy. 12.1% in health. 10% in education and 11.8% in other subjects.

For the survey, 1,000 telephone interviews were conducted nationwide on September 27, with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.10 percentage points.

Claudia Sheinbaum is a doctor in energy engineering, the daughter of a Jewish family, born and raised in Mexico. She has two brothers, studied ballet, but chose physics as a career. Check out this report by Jazive Pérez.

THE UNITED STATES AWAITS SHEINBAUM’S LEADERSHIP: JILL BIDEN

The First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, celebrated Sheinbaum’s arrival in the Presidency on Monday night during a reception hosted at the Mexico City Museum by US Ambassador Ken Salazar.

“As Dr. Sheinbaum pointed out, she did not arrive at this historic moment alone. He said: “We have all arrived, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our ancestors, mothers, daughters and granddaughters.” Tomorrow, these generations of women will arrive together at the Legislature to see her sworn in. “Joe (Mayden) and I — and so many Americans — wish him well and look forward to his leadership,” said Jill Biden.

The first lady of the United States said that she trusts the continuity of relations between the two nations, two countries that share one of the longest borders in the world, where transnational cooperation is needed on economic, security, immigration and combating drug trafficking among others.

“Under Dr. Sheinbaum’s presidency, I know we will continue to build a more prosperous, safe and democratic region. And we will take the next steps in our Mexico-US partnership. We are all part of this work. “Together we can be the conduit for the light of our two nations, lighting the path to even brighter tomorrows, lifting each other and lifting the world,” Biden said, concluding his message by referring to Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros . .

The dinner was attended by, among other leaders, Miguel Díaz-Canel, from Cuba. Bernardo Arévalo, from Guatemala; Lula da Silva, from Brazil. Gabriel Boric, from Chile. Gustavo Petro, from Colombia, and Xiomara Castro, president of Honduras.

Immigrants who have arrived in Mexico from various Latin American countries hope that Claudia Sheinbaum will support them.

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ISSUES NEW FLAG

Still as president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum presented this Monday through her social networks the new emblem of the government of Mexico: a young woman with indigenous features and traditional clothing from the rural world, in profile, while holding a Mexican flag in the her hand is gone.

In black and white, with a simple font that says “Government of Mexico”.