In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum takes the reins of the country and follows the mixed results of “AMLO”

Claudia Sheinbaum, who came first in the votes on June 2 in Mexico, takes office on Tuesday. She will be the country’s first female president.

The first female president of Mexico takes office, one month before the American presidential election, Tuesday October 1. Claudia Sheinbaum, “the doctora” as she is nicknamed for her scientific background, succeeds her mentor, “AMLO”.

Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador opened the doors to politics for him 24 years ago. He had just been elected mayor of Mexico City and asked him to tackle the problem of air pollution, specifying that he “doesn’t know anything about it“. Physicist, renowned scientist, granddaughter of European Jews who fled persecution, daughter of a renowned biologist and activist, author of dozens of articles published in specialized journals, she developed the avenues in 2000 in Mexico bicycles, technical inspection of cars, and sanctions against polluting factories But in 2006 after the first defeat of “AMLO” in the presidential election, she returned to her research. It was not until 2019 that she really established herself. in politics, as mayor of Mexico City.

She came to the head of the country with 60% of the votes, enough to make some people green with envy? However, we cannot say that “AMLO’s” record makes one green with envy. In terms of crime in particular, since it closes the bloodiest presidential term in the history of Mexico. Also in terms of the environment, because by giving priority to energy sovereignty and developing fossil fuels, Mexico has fallen far behind on the subject while in May 2024 a heat wave caused throughout the country power outages, and dehydrated monkeys were falling from trees. Finally, of course, we will have to defend the rights of women for which she promised to fight by making it easier to expel violent men from the home, in a country where 10 women are murdered every day.

There are therefore many challenges to overcome, and no one can say today if she will do better than her successor. But to those who already affirm that she will only be his puppet, we answer them like Paul Claudel, that a puppet is a word that acts.