"Close faithful" of AMLO will remain in strategic areas with Sheinbaum

The “close faithful” to AMLO

Rosa Icela Rodríguezwho will be the Secretary of the Interior, which is the agency in charge of managing the country’s internal political affairs, coordinating the Secretaries of State to comply with the orders of the president-elect and conducting relations between the Executive Branch and the other Powers of the Union, among other activities, is one of these characters close to López Obrador.

This is the second most important position, after the president, so in case of “absolute absence” of the president, it is the Secretary of the Interior who provisionally occupies the position, while the Congress of the Union appoints an interim or substitute head. of the Executive.

Rosa Icela Rodríguez is one of those closest to López Obrador, whom she has known for more than 30 years, when the still president led the “exodus for democracy”, but it was not until 2000 when López Obrador, being head of Government of the CDMX gave him his first public position as a representative in the Territorial Coordinations of Public Security and Justice Prosecution.

Another of the essential areas of the APF is the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), which is in charge of the fiscal policy of the federal government, and will be in charge of it. Rogelio Ramírez de la Owho was in the same position with López Obrador.

This agency is one of the most important in the federal government, since one of its functions is project and calculate the income of the Federation and parastatal entities, since without these resources the Federal Government could not execute its social programs.

It also calculates the expenses that the federal government will have and manages the public debt; That is, everything that has to do with public resources. The head of this agency presents the Economy Package every year to the Chamber of Deputies, which includes the draft Federal Expenditure Budget, the Federal Income Law and Economic Policy Criteria.

Ramírez de la O has been close to López Obrador since 2006. I supported him in his three presidential candidacies, but it was not until 2021 when he appointed him Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit, replacing Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez. With Sheinbaum, he will once again occupy that position.

López Obrador’s other “faithful” is Ariadna Montielwho has known the still president since he was a member of the PRD in the 90s. He will remain the head of the Secretary of Welfare, which is in charge of distributing social programs, including the Pension for Seniors, which most public resources count every year.

Ariadna Montiel met López Obrador when he was the president of the PRD in 1996; In 2000, when she won the elections to be the head of Government of the CDXM, she held various positions in the party, such as Secretary of Finance and Political Relations and Alliances. Once the politician formed Morena, the now Secretary of State left Sol Azteca to go to the new political body.

In 2022 she was appointed by López Obrador as Secretary of Welfare, a position she will continue to hold with Claudia Sheinbaum. This agency is essential in the APF as its functions include combating poverty and addressing the needs of the “most unprotected” social sectors, which is why it implements the programs: Pension for Older Adults, Pension for disabled people and Sembrando Vida, which have been budgetary priorities in the current government.

Another character who has remained “faithful” to López Obrador is Marcelo Ebrard, who will be the Secretary of Economics. This department is responsible for formulating and conducting the general policies of industry, foreign trade, internal trade, supply and prices of the country, therefore will participate in the review of the T-MEC.

Marcelo Ebrard met López Obrador in 1993, when the former was general secretary of the Government of the then Federal District department. López Obrador was looking to negotiate with the next Secretary of State, as he arrived with a caravan of Pemex workers to the city’s Zócalo to protest delayed payments.

It was not until 2002 when the two began working together. Ebrard was Secretary of Public Security in the administration of the Federal District government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Subsequently, they sought to be presidential candidates for the PRD, and it was in 2018 that Ebrard was their Secretary of Foreign Affairs. For more than 20 years, the two have been working together.

He will also continue in his position Zoe Robledo as head of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), a position he has held since 2019. This decentralized organization provides health services to its beneficiaries.

The man from Chiapas was reappointed to the position after López Obrador “recommended” Claudia Sheinbaum to do so, since she described him as “the best” official and that “it would be a waste” not to continue him, to which the president-elect agreed to ratify it.

Zoé Robledo met López Obrador in the 90s when both were active in the PRD. Although López Obrador left this party in 2012 to form Morena, the now head of the IMSS did so until 2017 to join said political body.

…and in Morena too

Not only in the Federal Public Administration (APF) will there be “the faithful” of López Obrador, but also in Morena, which he created in 2011 first as a political movement and then as a party.

On September 22, Morena elected Luisa María Alcalde Luján, current Secretary of the Interior, as president; However, the son of President López Obrador, Andres Lopez Beltranwill be the Secretary of Organization.

This is one of the main secretaries in Morena. The 38-year-old will have the control of the structure in Morena by taking charge of the territorial activity of the party; That is, he will manage the “National Register of Protagonists of True Change”, which in turn makes up the committees that will be in charge of convincing citizens to participate in the party.