President of Mexico presented constitutional reform to criminalize harassment against women

Published at: 05/11/2025 05:38 PM

The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, announced that she will promote a law to classify harassment as a criminal offence throughout the Republic, after filing a formal complaint for an assault she suffered while walking in the capital. The president explained that her action seeks to set a precedent and make visible a systemic problem that affects all Mexican women.

The incident occurred when Sheinbaum was traveling on foot, a journey that he decided to be shorter. He said that, although his assistant team immediately moved the man, after reviewing the videos, he understood the seriousness of the harassment.

“I decided to file a complaint because this is something I experienced as a woman, but we women in our country experienced it,” she said, recalling that she experienced harassment even as a child,” she said.

The political leader questioned the defenseless situation: “If I don't file a complaint, in what condition do all Mexican women remain? If they do this to the President, what's going to happen to all the young women?” The president's initiative contemplates a comprehensive reform against gender-based violence through legislative unification, since it will seek to classify harassment as a criminal offence in all states, since it is currently only a crime of common jurisdiction in Mexico City and not in the rest of the country.

Mazo News Team