The “humble people” never forgot him, that’s why they religed Lula, says López Obrador

Nestor Jimenez and Emir Olivares

Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, p. 18

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that the leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidential elections because the humble town he never forgot him, and insisted that he is a leader exceptional.

When presenting yesterday at his morning press conference the complete video, of more than 10 minutes, about the conversation they had on Monday, the Tabascan pointed out that he invited the virtual president-elect to visit Mexico towards the end of November within the framework of the summit of the Pacific Alliance, but ruled out traveling to Brazil soon because I have quite a lot of homework here. But it is a town that I respect a lot and love very much..

Moments before the video was shown in the Treasury Room, he said that Lula da Silva told him that, in his case, he would not be able to hold press conferences like the morning led by the Tabascan, because the standard-bearer of the Workers’ Party he has his way of working, he stays up very late, he works a lot.

When recounting details about the telephone conversation, he stressed that he told him: The humble people, the poor people are very grateful, they never forgot it. When he was president he helped the poor and for that they put him in jail. He comes back and wins with the majority vote of the poor. Everything about the people being ungrateful, what my little finger says. It may be that the ungrateful are elsewhere, not in the town.

Respects position of the Church, but does not share it

Asked about the position of the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate (CEM), which said worried for the electoral reform proposal, López Obrador indicated that it is their vision and we respect it, even if we do not agree with that point of view.

He asserted that there are those who want, the conservatives, the oligarchs, that there be nothing more than kratos without demos, power without peoplebut noted that it is not the case of the Church, because the Church is all of us, the Church is all the people.