By The Opinion
Nov 13, 2024, 2:53 PM EST
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said this Wednesday that her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), “has not retired from public life” after leaving office on September 30, because he is writing a book about indigenous people from his ranch in the southeast of the country.
“I think he has not retired from public life.and our adversaries are already listening because I say this, because they continue fighting, only from another trench,” declared the president in her morning conference.
The head of the Executive said that “sitting down to write a book about the cultural greatness of Mexico that resides, among other sources of wealth, in the indigenous peoples, is to continue fighting.”
The Mexican leader made these statements because this November 13 is López Obrador’s 71st birthdaywho was born in the southern state of Tabasco in 1953 and promised that he would not participate in politics after leaving the presidency.
“We are going to send him a congratulations, I don’t know if he hears us or through whoever is going to go see him to spend his birthday with President López Obrador, we send him a happy birthday,” he commented.
Sheinbaum has previously insisted that he will not “draw his line” with López Obradorwho left office with approval levels close to 70% and an election with record profits for his party, the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
The opposition has accused López Obrador of influencing Sheinbaum’s Government, but she has called these insinuations “sexist” and has insisted on defending him.
“For us and the people of Mexico, President López Obrador is a man who dedicated his life to the transformation of our country”I said it when I took office, he is the main political leader of the 21st century, and the leader who led to the transformation of our country,” he said now.
With information from EFE.
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