Sheinbaum’s Cabinet between technique and ideology: experts

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2024-07-22 22:16:54

The virtual President-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumannounced yesterday three other future secretaries of state: Claudia Curiel from Icaza, in Culture; Josefina Rodriguez Zamorain Turismoand the ratification as Secretary of Labor and Social Security of Marath Baruch Bolanos Lopez.

With this, the future President of Mexico has announced 22 members of his Government, of which 18 are future Secretaries of State and four correspond to his close team, such as the legal advisor, Ernestina Godoy, the person in charge of the Digital Transformation Agency, José Antonio Merino and his Office Manager, Lazaro Cardenas Batel and Altagracia Gomez who will be the coordinator of the Business Advisory Council.

The Secretaries of National Defense are still pending to be appointed (Sedena) and the Mexican Navy (Semar), who, according to the next president, will be the last members to be appointed.
Meanwhile, he announced that appointments will continue, but now for the expanded Cabinet: “That is the cabinet of the Government of Mexico that takes office on October 1, of course we will continue to make announcements about the expanded cabinet of fundamental tasks of the Government of Mexico.”

In this context, for specialists in politics and government, the Cabinet that will accompany Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo during her term as constitutional President of the United Mexican States for the period 2024-2030, has “traits” for a potential technical management; however, the ideological part also carries “an important weight to maintain the regime of the Fourth Transformation,” said political scientists.

Interviewed separately, Dr. Juan Jesús Ramírez Ramírez, coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Political Studies of the University Center for Social Sciences and Humanitiesand Alejandra López, director of Consultants on Gender and Government, agreed that having brought forward the timing of announcing their Secretaries of State was due to an issue of providing certainty to the markets and investors, in the midst of the so-called Plan C and the qualified majority of Morena and its allies in the Chamber of Deputies.

“The response they had international markets Regarding the role model, this was what began to impact the needs for appointments,” hence, in the first round of appointments, the future president presented profiles that were “extraordinarily competitive from the point of view of the training of future secretaries and “in that first profile, except for Ernestina Godoy, everyone has a doctorate or master’s degree abroad,” said Dr. Ramírez Ramírez.

He emphasized that during the announcements of Cabinet, Two types of appointments have been outlined, “the first, those close to and loyal to the current president,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and “the second, personalities who have a very particular approach to the management by Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City.”

Hence there is “a combination between that continuity that, at a given moment, was presented as the only possible way out of this government, to a more or less alternative project where traces of a potential technical management with another perspective are seen taking into account the continuity of the regime in which this administration is inscribed,” said the academic of the EDIT in an interview with 24 HOURS.

Meanwhile, Alejandra López highlighted the appointments of Rogelio Ramirez de la O in Finance, Marcelo Ebrard in Economy, Luz Elena González in Energy and Altagracia Gómez in links with businessmen, as profiles that give peace of mind to the markets.

Interviewed by this media, the specialist said that the virtual president-elect has demonstrated, so far, that she chose “very well in the profiles, not only with the political part but also those that show continuity” because they are all highly prepared.

The doctor Artemisa Montes Sylván A graduate specialist from the Faculty of Law at La Salle University, he considered that the Cabinet of the future president has specialists in the field in technical portfolios; however, in the political field, “a different selection could have been made.”
She pointed out that “yes, she is forming a Cabinet that allows her to run her own government, but she has a perspective that is based on the principles of the 4T, so what she is trying to build is exactly what she has been saying, a continuity but from her own vision of what the 4T is, It is not breaking with the principles but with the way of implementing these principles.“, said the La Salle specialist.

Organizations such as Unicef In Mexico they have also congratulated the doctor Claudia Sheinbaum for the appointments and offered their support to each of the future Secretaries of State, in order to achieve a good six-year term for children and adolescents.

2024-07-22 22:16:54

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