In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum formalized her candidacy for the presidential election in June.
“For the first time in history, after 200 years, a progressive woman will arrive at the presidency of the Republic
,” she said on Sunday as she left the National Electoral Institute (INE) in front of her supporters who chanted
“President!
President!”
.
“It is the symbol that we are leaving macho Mexico behind us
,” added the granddaughter of Jewish migrants from Bulgaria and Lithuania.
“A woman from the Chiapas plateaus
(in the South, editor’s note)
told me: “you are the unfulfilled dream of our grandmothers”.
This fills me with responsibility and enormous pride
. ”
In the neutral and serious tone that characterizes her, the trained scientist presented her program in 15 points.
She promised an
“austere government that will maintain the financial and fiscal discipline”
of her mentor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
On the theme of security, the former mayor of Mexico City, who is pleased to have reduced the number of homicides in the capital, promised to consolidate the National Guard, coordination with the prosecutor's office and to maintain daily meetings of the security cabinet.
She praised the salient points of the outgoing president's record, such as the increase in the minimum wage without impact on inflation,
"the strength of the peso"
which has appreciated strongly against the dollar and the
"reduction of poverty and some inequalities"
.
Furthermore, the same day, in Mexico City, a demonstration in defense of “democracy”
took place
.
Twelve days before the official opening of the campaign, tens of thousands of people gathered in Zocalo Square, the largest in Latin America, to denounce President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's recent constitutional revision project.