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Always your country first
“I am leaving very happy, also because tomorrow I will hand over the presidential sash to an exceptional woman,” said Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he was leaving the presidency of Mexico “very happy,” which he leaves with 70% popularity, and highlighted the achievements of his government as well as the satisfaction that tomorrow he will hand over the baton to his ally Claudia Sheinbaum.
“I am leaving very happy, also because tomorrow I will hand over the presidential sash to an exceptional woman,” he said in his last “morning” press conference that he held from Monday to Friday during his single six-year term, totaling 1,436 editions, according to counts by the consulting firm Spin.
As part of his last actions as head of state, he signed the promulgation of two constitutional reforms proposed by himself and approved by the federal and state congresses, which are widely dominated by the ruling party Morena and its allies.
The bill recognizes the rights of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and places the National Guard, the main security force, under the command of the Ministry of Defense. These will be published on Tuesday for their entry into force.
The first was unanimously approved, but the second faced criticism from the opposition, human rights organizations and the United Nations, which denounced the reform as a militarization of security in Mexico.
Becoming “part of the Ministry of Defense will give it (the National Guard) solidity, permanence, discipline and honest management, above all that it is not linked to organized crime,” he argued.
The wave of violence in Mexico has already totaled more than 450,000 murders and some 100,000 missing since the government launched a controversial military offensive to combat drug cartels at the end of 2006.
According to official statistics, almost 200,000 of these homicides were recorded during the leftist’s presidency, more than the figures for the two previous governments.
The 70-year-old leftist immediately began to show figures from his administration in different areas, claiming, for example, that more jobs were created during his government than in European countries or the United States.
Written by: Oscar El Blue
“I am leaving very happy” says López Obrador on his last day as Mexican president