Emir Olivares and Nestor Jimenez
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday November 29, 2022, p. 5
Happy and grateful!
, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said yesterday, after the massive demonstration of support he received on Sunday in the march that he himself led. But more than the satisfaction, the delivery of that entity that he refers to as the village
requires more commitment: We are going to continue, because this forces us to apply ourselves more. nobility obliges
.
Added: The people are very happy, very aware, very politicized of the importance, of the historical moment that we are living and very respectful. Not even slogans against our adversaries, nothing, I didn’t hear anything from the INE (National Electoral Institute), nothing. It’s something else, different
.
He said that he did not feel afraid when the progress of the march, chaotic for long moments due to the large number of people who wanted to approach him, exceeded the organization and could have put him at risk.
“It had been thought that there was going to be a discovery, with 10 leaders, women and men, even more women, but not at the right time, because the discovery was the people. In other words, it was not possible (…) People asked me, that is, they began to yell: ‘Take care of him, take care of him, take care of him, now, now’, for me to get into the car (in which they tried to move him for a moment because it was impossible to pass); but I felt good and we arrived. I’m already dotty, but I still have a lot of desire to live, ”he said yesterday morning.
people answer
Just a few hours after the busy day where hundreds of thousands gathered -1.2 million, according to the Government of Mexico City-, he looked a little tired, but he seemed satisfied.
I am very pleased, happy, and above all very grateful to the people, to everyone, because once again the goodness, generosity, and solidarity of our people were revealed.
The President described only a part of what he experienced on Sunday along the route from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo: Lots of love, affection, tears, kisses, hugs, blessings, wishes that we do well and breads, tamales… and they wanted me to receive a rooster
.
And it is that in the conference the question about the march was inevitable and up to three times it was raised.
It is an effective formula and it does not fail: if the people are served, the people respond. And it is not true, I repeat once again, that the people are ungrateful, the people are very fraternal, very supportive, and it is a lesson for any government in any part of the world.
López Obrador argued that the best of his management this year is the economic recovery registered in the country, with stability in this line and which has generated that there is no consumer crisis despite the pandemic and inflation.
He recalled that social programs have been applied since the beginning of his government and they are already walking
, but “it is the economy that has been working. It helps us a lot if the internal market is strengthened and stable, that there is no debt, that taxes do not increase, that there is no gasolinazosthat the price of diesel, gas and electricity does not increase”.
