Leaders of Sumar, Government’s partner, at the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum

The Diplomat Leaders of Sumar, a party that governs in coalition with Pedro Sánchez's PSOE, attended the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday, as the new president of Mexico, despite the fact that the Spanish Executive decided not to send any official representation to the event, following the veto of His Majesty the King. No member of the Government attended the replacement of Andrés Manuel López Obrador by Claudia Sheinbaum in the Presidency of Mexico, but Gerardo Pisarello, first secretary of the Board of the Congress of Deputies and Sumar parliamentarian for the Commons, did attend, despite the fact that the second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, cancelled her plan to attend the event, following the decision of the Executive. Pisarello distanced himself from the Government's decision and justified the veto of Don Felipe, because, according to him, "he could have apologized like Pope Francis, like many European monarchs who also apologized (...) but he opted for arrogance and disdain. And today he is paying a price for this enormous diplomatic clumsiness." From the same party as Pisarello, the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, was present at the ceremony, who has long maintained a personal friendship with the new Mexican president, whom she calls "my friend Shein." Another Spanish politician who traveled to Mexico to be at the inauguration was Irene Montero, a Podemos MEP and former Minister of Equality in the previous coalition government of Sánchez. On her account on the social network X, Montero defended strengthening ties with Mexico "despite the monarchy." She was accompanied by Javier Sánchez Serna, co-spokesperson for Podemos and a member of Congress. The following also did not miss the inauguration ceremony of the new president: Jon Iñarritu, member of Congress for EH Bildu; and Ana Pontón, spokesperson in Galicia for the BNG. On the contrary, the spokesperson for the PSOE in Congress, Patxi López, acknowledged that he does not like Sumar's attitude. "Well, the truth is that I personally do not like it," he said when asked about the presence of Pisarello and Colau. "There is an official position of the Government of Spain that I think is very coherent. The presence of the head of State cannot be rejected and the Government acts accordingly."

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