Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday December 13, 2022, p. 8
The possibility of holding debates between the candidates for the presidential candidacy of Morena in the short term is not viable because it could incur in anticipated campaign acts, considered the head of the Interior, Adán Augusto López. Imagine, the Secretary of the Interior is going to debate with the Secretary of Foreign Relations, with the Head of Government or with the President of the Senate. These are not times yet for political projects, they are the times of the President
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Interviewed upon leaving the National Palace about Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard’s proposal to set some rules for the selection of the presidential candidate, López asked to wait for the legal time to carry out the internal process.
– Do you consider that Claudia Sheinbaum and Ebrard are anticipating campaign events?
-No, I do not consider that they are anticipating events, they asked me specifically about the debates and I believe that everything has its time.
–So, the debates would have to be until 2024?
– They would have to wait for the constitutional times, how are we going to debate if the space for pre-candidacies is not even opened.
For the person in charge of domestic policy still These are not times for pre-candidacies and we take advantage of our free time to go to the states or right here in the city to meet with our colleagues and the various sectors
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–Do the processes have to be on an even floor?
-Well, why do we advance the times?
–But official candidacies because there is already talk of…
–It is that there are no unofficial candidacies.
He affirmed that there are still colleagues who have expressed the possibility or aspiration to participate once the calls are issued. As long as this does not happen, there are no pre-candidacies, much less candidacies, and if there are no pre-candidacies, there can be no debate.
– About the chancellor’s proposal that there be resignations in February 2023?
Well, these are not times for that.
– When would you resign?
-When constitutionally obliged to do so, I leave them there for homework.
