The official candidate for the Presidency of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, stated this Monday that she will be “the first female president of Mexico” after the elections held on Sunday and has revealed that her two rivals, Xóchitl Gálvez and Jorge Álvarez Maínez, have telephoned her to recognize his defeat after the publication of the quick count of the National Electoral Institute (INE), which gives him a wide advantage in the count.
I will become the first female president of Mexico,” she said, before highlighting that she will be the first “in 200 years of the Republic.” “As I have said on other occasions, I am not arriving alone. We all arrived, with our heroines who gave us a homeland, with our ancestors, our mothers and our daughters,” she said in an appearance before her followers broadcast by her account on the social network X.
Thus, he thanked Gálvez and Álvarez Maínez for “their calls” to recognize his victory and recalled that “according to the preliminary results released by the INE, the difference for the Presidency of the Republic is more of 30 points”.
“It is important to make known that, even considering the lowest rank that was announced (…), we have won the qualified majority in the Chamber of Deputies and most likely also in the Chamber of Senators,” Sheinbaum highlighted. “I want to thank the millions of Mexican men and women who decided to vote for us on this historic day to advance with the fourth transformation of the public life of our beautiful country. It is the recognition of the people of Mexico to our history, to the results, to the conviction and will, but above all it is the recognition of the people of Mexico to our national project,” he highlighted.
In this sense, he has reiterated his support for “a plural, diverse and democratic Mexico” and has highlighted that “dissent is part of democracy.” “Although the majority of the people supported our project, our duty is and will always be to look after each and every one of the Mexicans without distinction. So although many Mexican men and women do not agree with our project, we will have to walk in peace and harmony to continue building a fair and more prosperous Mexico,” he argued.
“Our government will be honest,” Sheinbaum has promised, adding that it will be one “without corruption or impunity” and “with republican austerity, financial and fiscal discipline, and autonomy of the Bank of Mexico.” “There will be no real increases in fuel or electricity. We will maintain the obligatory division between economic power and political power,” he said.
“We will always defend and work for the supreme interest of the people of Mexico and the nation and we will act in accordance with the laws and the Right. We will guarantee freedoms of expression, of the press, of assembly, of concentration and mobilization. We are democrats and by conviction we will never We would have an authoritarian or repressive government,” said the official candidate, who also promised “I also respect social, cultural and religious political diversity, and gender and sexual diversity.”
Sheinbaum has also reiterated that the authorities “will respect freedom in politics” and “will honestly promote and facilitate national and foreign private investment, which promotes social well-being and regional development, always guaranteeing respect for the environment”, while at the same time He has assured that he will allocate part of the Budgets “to guarantee all the welfare programs initiated by the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”
“We will continue with a foreign policy, based on our constitutional principles of non-intervention, international cooperation for development, self-determination of peoples and the constitution of peace,” he said, before announcing that “with the United States there will be a relationship of friendship, mutual respect and equality as it has been until now.
“We will always defend the Mexicans who are on the other side of the border,” he stressed. Finally, he expressed his special gratitude for the congratulations conveyed by López Obrador, whom he described as “an exceptional, unique man, who has transformed the history of our country for the better.”
