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Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico’s first female president

Thursday, 03 Oct, 2024
Sheinbaum received the presidential sash in a boisterous ceremony in Mexico's Congress, marking the start of her six-year term. (Photo courtesy: Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo/Facebook)

Mexico City: Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has been sworn in as Mexico’s first woman serving the presidency during a solemn ceremony in Congress. “I swear to uphold and enforce the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States … and to loyally and patriotically carry out the office of president of the republic that the people have conferred upon me,” Sheinbaum said with her hand raised in a sign of oath.

Sheinbaum, 62, won the presidential elections in June with a large majority of the votes to become the first woman to assume the office. In her first message to the nation as president, Sheinbaum said the Latin American country has entered an era of change, in which women are protagonists, IANS reported citing Xinhua news agency.

Her administration, she said, will continue to deepen the reform process begun by her predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as part of Mexico’s so-called Fourth Transformation, which aims to promote self-determination and development by focusing on helping to lift people out of poverty.