The future president of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Thursday the first six members of the government team that will accompany her starting October 1 when she assumes power.
Sheinbaum said in a press conference that his chancellor will be Juan Ramón de la Fuente, who is currently in charge of coordinating his government’s transition team.
In the Ministry of the Environment there will be the current chancellor Alicia BárcenaRosaura Ruiz will go to the Secretariat of Sciences, former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will be the new Secretary of Economy and Julio Berdegué was appointed as Secretary of Agriculture.
The appointment of De la Fuente, who until last September was Mexico’s ambassador to the United Nations, was expected since in recent weeks the former rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico accompanied Sheinbaum in meetings with diplomats and before the delegation that sent the American president, Joe Biden.
De la Fuente, 72, is a psychiatrist and academic who held the Ministry of Health during the government of Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000).
Ebrard, 64, headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador until mid-last year, where he was for five years. He left office to compete in the ruling Morena party’s process for the election of the presidential candidate that Sheinbaum won.
The new Secretary of Economy was also mayor of Mexico City between 2006-2012.
After losing in the internal process of the ruling party, he distanced himself for a time from Sheinbaum by denouncing irregularities in the election of the Morena candidate, but then he joined his campaign team and ran as a candidate for senator, a seat that he won in the elections. June 2nd.
The next president appointed Ernestina Godoy as the legal advisor to the Presidency.
Until the beginning of this year, Godoy was the attorney general of Mexico City. Between 2018-2020, Godoy was a prosecutor in the capital, a position she reached thanks to Sheinbaum, and then she was confirmed in the position when the agency was renamed the Prosecutor’s Office.
At the beginning of the year, Godoy left the Prosecutor’s Office after failing to obtain the necessary votes in the Congress of Mexico City for a new term. The lawyer won a seat in the Senate in the June 2 elections for the ruling Morena party.
Sheinbaum, who won by an overwhelming majority general elections on June 2, indicated that he hopes to name the rest of his cabinet, made up of about twenty people, in the coming days.
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