“We have to limit travel expenses, operating expenses; reduce the cost of government”, said the president in the morning conference. “Before, the government cost the people a lot, it was a government that was maintained and good for nothing,” he added.
López Obrador recalled that, while in the last year of Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration, 2018, “presidency exercised 3,600 million pesos; we exercised about 600 million last year”, he maintained.
Questioned about the budget, the president assured that “we are not going to have difficulties, we are not going to stop any work. We have to finish this year, there is no sub-exercise”. He announced that next year’s budget will begin to be seen, “these days we have to send the draft.”
The president presumed that, as of July, 2.3% more has been collected than in the same period of 2021, “last year it was 2 billion 585,000 and now it is 2 billion 845,000,” he specified.
there will be no recession
López Obrador commented that there will be no recession in Mexico in 2023What predicted the rating agency Moody’s in past days.
“In Mexico we are not going to have problems. We are already facing the most difficult, the most painful: the damage caused by the pandemic, ”said the president, pointing out that his government will continue to face inflation so that“ the purchasing power of families is not lost ”.