( Spanish) – The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, dedicated her first words on Tuesday as the first woman to assume the Executive Branch of the country in 200 years to praise the legacy of the man who preceded her in office: the now former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“We are going to maintain all the president’s programs and I say president because he is the best president our country has ever had,” Sheinbaum exclaimed before a crowd of supporters in the Zócalo of the Mexican capital.
Sheinbaum spoke these words shortly after receiving the baton of command from the indigenous peoples, a ceremony also performed by his predecessor.
“And as we always say, I am not arriving alone, all the women of Mexico are arriving,” said Sheinbaum, before speaking again about her predecessor: “I ask for a little of your patience, just as Andrés Manuel López Obrador did, I want to do with you the 100 points of commitment for the next six years”, referring to his government period as the “second floor of the fourth transformation”, a second part of the previous government.
Within these 100 points, Sheinbaum said that, also like López Obrador, he will give a daily press conference but with one change: “We will start at 7:30, we will give you half an hour.”
The Mexican president also referred to the students who disappeared at the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in 2014 and repeated the promise that López Obrador made when he came to office six years ago, which remained unfulfilled. “We will continue working with the relatives to achieve truth and justice until all the missing young people of Ayotzinapa are found,” he stated.
Likewise, he said that he would create the first Women’s Secretariat. “We will send to the Congress of the Union a package of reforms, some constitutional, so that in Article 4 the substantive equality of women and the right to a life free of all violence is clear.”
Among these legislative changes, he said he would send a proposal to eliminate the wage gap between men and women; to establish egalitarian cabinets by law in municipalities, and the establishment of a law that would force aggressors to leave their homes in place of women and children who suffer from domestic violence.
Sheinbaum also commented that he hopes that by the end of his term in office he will have managed to establish the 40-hour work week in Mexico. “In agreement with the employers, we will gradually achieve the 40-hour week during the six-year period,” he stated.
At the end of his speech, Sheinbaum reiterated that security and peace in Mexico “are a product of justice” and said that he was consolidating the strategy against drug trafficking, which is in line with those of his predecessor: attention to the causes, strengthening of the National Guard, intelligence and investigation and coordination.
The Mexican president reiterated her support for the consolidation of the National Guard as dependent on the Ministry of Defense.
“For those who criticize that this is militarization, false, in our country there is no state of exception, there are no violations of Human Rights, what there is now is with the fourth transformation is more democracy, more freedoms and a true Rule of Law ”Sheinbaum said.
A UN report released on September 13 indicates that the implementation of the bill that allows the National Guard to join the Ministry of Defense may increase the risk of human rights abuses in Mexico.
“We are alarmed that, if the constitutional reform proposal is approved, it would permanently assign public security functions to the Armed Forces. The potential impact of this modification on the increase in forced disappearances and impunity is extremely worrying,” says the statement released by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
has requested a comment from the Mexican presidency to ask about its position on this report. Sheinbaum has reiterated on several occasions that, despite repeated criticism from international organizations and the increase in civilian tasks in the hands of the military, there is no militarization in the country.
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