Mexican Plivent Claudia Sheinbaum vows ‘it’s time for women’

The passing of the plivential sash every six years is always an startant and symbolic occasion in Mexico.

But on Tuesday, when it was placed over the shoulder of Claudia Sheinbaum – the first woman to hanciaccess the highest office in the country – it was truly an historic watershed moment in more than 200 years of up-to-date Mexican history.

It has been a extfinished road which led the first female mayor of Mexico City to fracture the glass ceiling in Mexican politics aget, this time at national level.

To huge cheers of “Pliventa!” ringing out both inside and outside the congressional chamber, she elevated her fist in triumph, savouring the moment.

She began her first speech as plivent by thanking her political mentor and predecessor in the top job, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, calling him “the most startant political directer and social warrior in Mexico’s up-to-date history”.

He exits office, she shelp, with “the wonderfulest cherish of his people”.

On that point, she is not wrong. López Obrador is proset uply becherishd by his aiders and his well-understandnity ratings in his final days in office were higher than those of any other plivent in Mexican history.

He unmistrustedly exits very huge shoes for her to fill, but Plivent Sheinbaum was rapid to stress that she was not daunted.

“It is time for women,” she shelp to applaparticipate from the ruleing party’s lawproducers. “Women have get tod to shape the desminuscule of our pretty nation.”

As she set out her agfinisha as plivent, it was aget evident that López Obrador’s vision for Mexico had supplyd a expansive blueprint.

She recommendd people to appraise – using chilly difficult facts – what had been accomplishd over the past six years.

“How were 9.5 million Mexicans pulled from pcleary?” she asked.

“How was unparticipatement shrinkd? Greater well-being produced? The smallest wage repeatedly increased, but not inflation?”

Her conclusion was plain: thcdimiserablemireful “Mexican humanism” – the name she donates to the political project she has scatterd with her mentor, López Obrador, for the best part of two decades.

Naturpartner, her detractors will contest the rosy image of the Mexican economy she colored.

But Sheinbaum promised to “validateate the health service into the highest quality free unveil healthnurture system” and to produce a further 300,000 places in higher education in recent unveil high schools and universities.

“Health and education are rights of the Mexican people, not privileges nor merchandise,” she insisted.

There are evidently going to be meaningful disputes ahead, too.

The drug war in Mexico persists to rage out of regulate, particularly in the states of Sinaloa and Chiapas.

The descfinishout from a sour split in the Sinaloa Cartel has seen firearm battles rage in the streets of the norther city of Culiacán and will not be effortless for any directer to transport under regulate.

Sheinbaum’s critics say her experiences in improving the security of the capital city cannot srecommend be applied at the federal level – especipartner, they dispute, if she adheres López Obrador’s approach and chooses agetst tackling the cartels head on.

Certainly the shadow of her predecessor will loom huge.

The man she called “brother, frifinish, compañero” insists he will be stepping back from political life and finishelighting his withdrawment at his ranch in Chiapas.

But some mistrust he may be too inserticted to politics to walk away from it entidepend.

Sheinbaum’s elevate to the plivency is the culmination of her time at his side, her stellar nurtureer from student activist to climate scientist to mayor of Mexico City now finish that she has been sworn in as the nation’s directer.

It has been an exceptional journey in and of itself – one which she insists is only fair beginning.

“I’m a mother, majesticmother, scientist, a woman of faith, and now, plivent!” she shelp as she wrapped up her inaugural speech.

She promised to rule for all Mexicans and put her “understandledge, strength, my past and my very life” to labor to deffinish Mexico.

There will presbrave on her to thrive in her own right from the very begin.

However, the many millions of Mexican men and women who voted for her will bravely grant her a little time and the advantage of the mistrust.

“I won’t let you down,” she tanciaccess them.