The president of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, Ifigenia Martínez, a figure of the left and feminism, died at the age of 94 four days after leading the historic inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum as the country’s first president, the president announced on Saturday.
«On October 1 I received the presidential sash from your hands. Today he left us. “I send all my love and solidarity to his family, colleagues and friends,” Sheinbaum wrote on the social network X on Saturday night, along with a photo of his inauguration last Tuesday.
Martínez, with very weakened health, was barely able to pass the band from the hands of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador to those of Sheinbaum.
“Giving the presidential sash to the first president is one of the greatest honors of my life,” Martínez had posted on his X account on Friday.
“The arrival to the presidency of Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum is the culmination of a struggle that entire generations of women have gone through who, with courage, have challenged the limits of our times,” she added.
The new president, 62 years old, defined Martínez as a “consistent woman of convictions.”
Born on June 16, 1930, Martínez was one of the founders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the 1980s.
“Ifigenia Martínez was the first Mexican to graduate with a master’s degree and a doctorate in economics from Harvard,” according to the news site El Financiero.
He participated in the student movement of 1968, whose bloody repression was condemned by Sheinbaum the day after his inauguration.
Sheinbaum, who will govern the country for six years, announced constitutional reforms on Thursday to strengthen women’s rights.
A renowned scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, the president won the presidential elections in June with almost 60% of the votes, as a candidate for the ruling leftist party Movement for National Regeneration (Morena) and its allies.
However, it will have to face the scourge of drug violence.
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