The president’s son Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorcalled Andres Manuel Lopez Beltranrejected this Monday the invitation to the former chancellor’s proposal Marcelo Ebrardone of the six candidates for the presidential candidacy for the ruling party, to lead the Secretariat of the Fourth Transformationif he will reach the presidency of the country.
This Monday morning, Ebrard proposed the creation of said secretariat and said that he would like it to be led by López Beltrán.
I am thinking of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán to lead this agency,” he declared at his first event on his tour seeking to be a candidacy for his party, the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), in the June 2024 elections.
Through a letter, López Beltrán thanked Ebrard for the “generous offer” and expressed his respect as an official and politician while reminding him that he seeks to remain faithful to his family commitment “not to intervene or participate in politics, much less in the presidential succession process.” .
I prefer to stay on the sidelines and reject it so that it cannot be used for or against any of our colleagues who, legitimately, also work to lead the defense of the fourth transformation of the country,” López Beltrán told the foreign minister.
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López Beltrán reiterated to Ebrard his sincere gratitude for his proposal and I wish him, like the other five applicants, “the best of luck” in the internal process.
Secretariat of the 4T, a proposal by Ebrard
This Monday, Ebrard presented his proposal to create a secretariat of the Fourth Transformation whose mission is to continue and consolidate the project started by López Obrador.
This secretariat would help us in a very important way to guarantee not only continuity but also to achieve the objectives of the 4T. I think that this will allow us to consolidate the Fourth Transformation ”, he declared.
Ebrard said last week that the proposal that he will take on his tour of the country is “contact with people, listening, dialogue with humility.”
The aspirants to the presidency of Mexico for the ruling party Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) began their political tours on Monday towards the definition of the candidate of the ruling party for the 2024 elections.
In addition to Ebrard, the former head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum; the former Secretary of the Interior, Adam Augusto Lopezand the licensed senator and coordinator of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal.
In addition, the movement founded by President López Obrador in 2011 and recognized as a party in 2014 defined that it will participate in the presidential elections next year in alliance with the Labor Parties (PT) and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM).
These political forces enlisted the licensed deputy, Gerardo Fernandezby the PT, and the licensed senator Manuel Velascoof the PVEM.
In the internal process to define the successor to López Obrador, The party agreed that this Monday all the applicants would begin their tours that will last until August 27.
President López Obrador promised that he will not intervene in the election of the presidential candidate of his Morena party, although he himself has defined the method of his partisan statutes.
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