Eduardo González
The Spanish Government has announced its decision not to participate “at any level” in the inauguration of the president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, in response to the “unacceptable” decision of the authorities of that country not to invite the King.
“The Government of Spain considers the exclusion of His Majesty the King from the invitation to the inauguration of the president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, on October 1 in Mexico City, unacceptable,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. “For this reason, the Government of Spain has decided not to participate in this inauguration at any level,” he added.
The official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, who won the presidential elections on June 3 by a large majority, will take office on October 1 in Mexico City.
The King represents Spain at the inaugurations of Ibero-American presidents, a task that Don Felipe has been assuming since 1996 when he was still Prince of Asturias. This is the fourteenth participation of Felipe VI in the inauguration of an Ibero-American president since he became King.
Specifically, the Monarch was at the inauguration of Sheinbaum’s predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in 2018. He was also there in 2019, at that of the Panamanian Laurentino Cortizo; in 2020, at those of the Uruguayan Luis Lacalle Pou and the Bolivian, Luis Arce; in 2021, in those of Ecuadorian Guillermo Lasso Mendoza and Peruvian Pedro Castillo; in 2022, in those of Honduran Xiomara Castro, Chilean Gabriel Boric, Costa Rican Rodrigo Chaves and Colombian Gustavo Petro; in 2023, in those of Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Paraguayan Santiago Peña Palacios and Argentine Javier Milei; and in 2024, in those of Guatemalan President César Bernardo Arévalo de León; Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino Quintero; and the re-elected Nayib Bukele, from El Salvador; and, Luis Abinader, from the Dominican Republic.
