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Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated as Mexico’s first female president on Tuesday, succeeding her mentor, the left-wing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“It is time for change, and it is time for women,” said Ms Sheinbaum in Mexico City after her swearing-in ceremony.
The 62-year-old thanked her charismatic predecessor, whose popularity helped her to a clear victory in June’s election.
“It was an honour to fight with you,” she told López Obrador.
A number of high-ranking diplomats and representatives were in attendance, including the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, and Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States.
Ms Sheinbaum – the country’s first president of Jewish origin – plans to continue López Obrador’s programme, including his social spending and expansion of the railway network, while pursuing her own priorities.
However, her first task is to deal with a natural emergency. She is set to visit Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero on Wednesday, where Hurricane John has killed dozens and left large areas under water.
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Other significant issues facing the new administration include the country’s powerful drug cartels, and tensions over migration and trade with the United States, Mexico’s northern neighbour.
A former physicist and climate scientist, Ms Sheinbaum has the backing of López Obrador’s Morena party, which controls both chambers of the Mexican Congress.
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She previously served as the mayor of Mexico City and contributed to two reports for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body for assessing environmental science relating to climate change.
(dpa/NAN)
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