Mexicans from all over the republic marched through the capital, which from early morning until late afternoon saw its main avenues filled with hundreds of people.
At the head of the crowd was López Obrador, AMLO, who before reaching the executive branch led some of the biggest demonstrations of this century in Mexico.
AMLO had called on the entire country to participate in the “people’s march” in clear defiance of the opposition, which two weeks ago came out to protest against his government, criticizing above all his most recent commitment to change electoral laws.
And he directed his first words to the opposition: “Effective suffrage, effective democracy, no re-election,” he stressed before taking stock of his management, repeating his slogans in favor of the poor and against the oligarchies.
The president took a little less than six hours to walk the almost 5 kilometers of the route, refusing to get into a vehicle as his security team proposed when the fervor of the public seemed to overflow.
The opposition denounced that many people were forced to attend, upon payment, but the protesters denied it.
“We are not hauled, it’s called an ‘organization,’ and believe it or not, it’s what we’ve been doing since 2006,” emphasized Nelly Muñoz, an administrative worker at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
In 2006, López Obrador came within a hair’s breadth of winning the presidency. A huge sector of society supported his allegations of electoral fraud. Those same people were the ones who organized and brought him to power in 2018.
Part of that base, academics, human rights defenders, feminists and environmentalists, are now among the most critical sectors of the government due to the growing role of the military, due to the unstoppable violence, due to various laws whose constitutionality has been questioned in recent years. courts, and for supporting controversial megaprojects.
But López Obrador continued to defend each and every one of the measures taken, lashed out again at his opponents and asked to continue working for change. He had first called it the “Fourth Transformation” of Mexico and on Sunday renamed it the “Mexican Humanism” movement.
“There are things we disagree on… but that doesn’t mean we don’t support the process of the Fourth Transformation,” said Aurora Pedroche, a member of a Morena sector that questions the party’s leadership, but supports the president.
“You cannot make a change from day to night and Andrés Manuel is not infallible,” he insisted. “But we have worked a lot and what we do not want is for this to be reversed.”
Associated Press/OnCuba.
