Despite the dirty campaign and misogyny, the transformation is feminist: Sheinbaum

MEXICO CITY (apro).- Supported by hundreds of women who supported her in her campaign, the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, highlighted that, despite the fact that she suffered a “dirty campaign” and “with misogynistic arguments that are still read in the feathers of conservatism”, her triumph on June 2 means that the “transformation is feminist.”

At the University of the Sor Juana Cloister, the Morenista received “the Women’s Command Staff” from the former Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, and began her speech with a kind of claim:

“We endured a campaign full of slander, dirty war, lies, misogynistic arguments that are still read in the pens of conservatism, ‘calca’, ‘clone’, but the people of Mexico said with strength and determination that it is time to women and it is time for transformation. That means that the transformation is feminist.”

She added that this fight is “always for the vindication of all rights for all women, and also, for the good of everyone, first the indigenous women, first the Afro-Mexican women; for the good of everyone, poor women first.”

In a speech that attempted to be feminist, she stated: “We emerged from the heroes who gave us a homeland, but we claim with strength and conviction that each and every one of us also emerged from the heroines who gave us a homeland and from the homeland; and that they have been forgotten, not recognized for the sole fact of being women.”

And he listed names of women from whom, he assured, the Fourth Transformation also comes: Leona Vicario, María Gertrudis Armendáriz, Gertrudis Bocanegra, Margarita Maza de Juárez, Ignacia Riesch, Carmen Serdán, the Narváez sisters, Sara Pérez, Matilde Montoya, Juana Belén, Hermila Galindo, Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Agustina Ramírez Heredia, Elvia Carrillo Puerto and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

“In the next six years, we will have to continue to vindicate the women of our history, the women of today, and to pave the way for the women of tomorrow,” she added.

In the middle of her speech dedicated to women, Sheinbaum Pardo made space to highlight the work of a man, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his victory in the elections of July 1, 2018: “The people of Mexico also decided to overcome the old neoliberal model and begin to write a new chapter in history with a great president: Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”

And he added: “On June 2, 2024, the people of Mexico reiterated it, even more strongly than in 2018, endorsed the model of Mexican Humanism and gave us a mandate: continue with the Fourth Transformation and open the door to the women, therefore, it must be clear that neoliberalism is left behind in Mexico.”

According to him, that model for 36 years affected women more. “Working poverty and profound inequality came together with discrimination, classicism, racism and profound machismo; fortunately, all of this is being left behind, although there is still a way to go,” she stated.

“I don’t want to be a princess anymore.”

Encouraged by the hundreds of women’s voices who interrupted her with chants of “pre-si-den-ta!”, Claudia Sheinbaum assured that the fact that on October 1 there will be a female president of Mexico has a symbol:

“Without a doubt, that is already an achievement, it is a symbol for girls, for young women. During the campaign, not only did I see the joy and excitement on her faces, but I saw signs carried by young women and girls that said: ‘I no longer want to be a princess, I want to be president.’ That is also part of the Revolution of Consciousness.”

Then, she recalled the two social programs for women that were the banner of her presidential campaign: economic support for women between 60 and 64 years old, as a way of “vindication and recognition”; and the National Care System, so that “women have the right to their autonomy and we have the right to full development.”

He recalled the campaign promise that this last program would begin with agricultural days and women in the maquila “in a simple sense, it is called ‘justice’.”

Amidst the applause, the morenista closed: “In Mexico we already found ourselves and we will never be alone again, never a Mexico without us.”