Claudia Sheinbaum is finally declared president-elect in an official ceremony –

Claudia Sheinbaum, who won the Mexican presidential election in June, is finally declared president-elect.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum, the woman who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, has finally been formally declared president-elect of Mexico, the first woman to hold the office in Mexico.

During a ceremony Thursday, the former mayor of Mexico City was handed the legal ruling declaring her the country’s next president, a ruling that had been delayed by appeals to the Federal Electoral Court.

Sheinbaum will be sworn in as president on Oct. 1, instead of the usual swearing-in ceremony on Dec. 1. The transition period was shortened after Mexican lawmakers ruled that outgoing presidents were staying in office too long. Sheinbaum will serve a six-year term that ends in 2030.

Sheinbaum has pledged to follow the policies of her predecessor and political mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

She wasted no time in saying that López Obrador’s “hugs, not bullets” policy of not confronting the country’s powerful drug cartels was here to stay. The policy, which emphasizes handout programs to shrink the pool of cartel recruits, has proven ineffective in stemming the tide of drug violence.

Source: OEM

The Mexico City Post