I am in very good health and will finish my term in 2024, says the President

Nestor Jimenez and Roberto Garduno

Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, p. 8

I’m very good health, one hundred, recoveredPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador said yesterday when he presumed that he is practicing baseball again and I’m already hitting over 300 again, poorly, poorly.

He also criticized the proliferation of lies and false notes wholesale and ratified that he will conclude his term until September 2024, at which time he will close his cycle for being in favor of not being re-elected.

I am no longer going to have political participation in anything, since I am closing my cyclehe added, rejecting the interpretation of several of his statements, which, he argued, is part of the manipulation that we are suffering.

In these two and a half years that remain, he stressed, he will focus on completing more than a dozen projects, which he listed in his daily conference at the National Palace; from dams to highways, airports, the Mayan Train or aqueducts.

While the Felipe Ángeles International Airport will be handed over on March 21, highways from Oaxaca are underway, such as the one from the state capital to Puerto Escondido, and by the end of this year the railway lines from Salina Cruz to Coatzacoalcos will be ready.

We must have finished the refineries that are being modernized, the new Dos Bocas refinery is going to be finished. The Mayan Train must be finished in December of next year.

In addition, the works of the Zapotillo dam, the Santa María dam with its electric power generation system, the irrigation district of the Yaqui villages, the aqueduct to bring healthy water to La Laguna and the cultural and ecological center are underway. of the Marías Islands, among several of the projects he mentioned.

Similarly, López Obrador pointed out that the different social programs of his administration will be maintained, of which he also made a compilation.

At the same time, it guaranteed that all citizens will be able to participate in the electoral processes without limitations and freely, no retaliation of any kind.

He highlighted: They insult me ​​every day in the media and we respect the right to dissent and the freedom to express ideas, freedoms. We are incapable of threatening anyone, if we have been fighting against it for years.

Call to listen to new union leader

After the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare recognized Ricardo Aldana as a leader of the Oil Workers Union of the Mexican Republic, President López Obrador asserted that the CEO of Pemex, Octavio Romero, must receive the new union leader and if there are possibilities, there is time, I would receive it later, when the agenda allows it and it is important.