“There are two companies that are resisting, they are waiting for me to leave. I would advise them to resolve it in the next few days, because I know the president-elect very well, I know her better than they do, and she is very upright. At one point, I will be the one to leave,” he declared at his morning press conference.
“They should not think that they are going to go back to what was before, no, before as before, now as now,” he mentioned.
López Obrador is seeking to buy 10 PPP hospitals because he believes that the current contracts are not beneficial for the Public Administration.
These hospitals were built with private sector money in exchange for the government paying an annual fee to the companies for up to 25 years.
So the López Obrador government has tried to modify those contracts. So far, the president says, agreements have been reached with three hospitals.
“There is a lot of progress being made, an agreement has already been reached in the case of some hospitals, there are around 10. We have some differences with two of them,” he explained.
“Olegario Vázquez’s company already had three hospitals and an agreement was reached with him, there are three of those hospitals. We thank him because they accepted the contract modification. They were not contracts that were good for the public interest, they understood that,” he added.
