The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, He affirmed that “everything went well” in the definition of his party’s presidential candidacyhe National Regeneration Movement (Morena)which this Wednesday announces its candidate for the 2024 elections after a questioned process.
In the end, it is the citizens who are going to decide, so they took my recommendations into account and that’s it, everything has gone well and I hope that today, when they announce the result, I find out like you did,” the president declared at his morning press conference. .
Morena, a party founded by López Obrador, will announce its presidential candidate this Wednesday afternoon after conducting an in-person survey of 12,500 citizens on the six ruling party candidatesamong whom the former head of the Government of Mexico City stands out Claudia Sheinbaum and the former chancellor Marcelo Ebrard.
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The list is completed by the former Secretary of the Interior Adam Augusto Lopezthe former leader of the senators of Morena Ricardo Monreallicensed senator from the Green Party (PVEM) Manuel Velasco and the deputy licensed from the Labor Party (PT) Gerardo Fernandez Norona.
Dissatisfied between ‘corcholatas’
The internal process, which began in June, has been marked by controversy because Ebrard denounced “incidents and problems” in the survey and accused officials of Morena, the federal government and Mexico City of using resources to mobilize voters in favor. Sheinbaum, who from the beginning has led the polls.
Instead, López Obrador now assured that there have been no lawsuits between the applicantsto whom he proposed “not to debate among themselves” because “the debate had to be with the people.”
My recommendations were taken into account, the governors acted very respectfully, and the aspiring coordinators of the transformation movement (candidates) behaved very well. Our adversaries and their spokespersons wanted to get hold of each other, to break down (fight) ”, he commented.
The president, who will conclude his term on October 1, 2024, announced that he will hand over the “baton of command” of his “transformation movement” to whoever wins the survey, in a ceremony that is expected to take place on Thursday.
It is a way of handing over a responsibility that has fallen to me as the leader of a transformation movement, the cane symbolizes that, above all it is a symbol of indigenous communities, of the poorest in this country and it is to hand over that symbol to whoever must lead the transformation”, he commented.
Morena’s candidacy will face Senator Xóchitl Gálvez in the June 2024 elections, who last Sunday took office as the leader of the opposition Broad Front for Mexico.
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