López Obrador endorses the activism of those who aspire to relieve him

Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, October 13, 2022, p. 6

In the midst of the growing prominence of those who aspire to succeed him in the Presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador endorsed his activism, since If we were going to end the cover-up and the finger, it had to be opened. We are in the unprecedented, making history. None of those who seek the nomination in his movement, he assured, has abandoned their responsibilities as officials.

– Is there a risk that the succession will be derailed?

-No not at all. Back to the same. Remember the question that James Creelman asked Porfirio Díaz –he responded by appealing to history. And it is that, according to him he said, the cover art has existed in Mexico for 150 years.

Questioned about the revelations made after her resignation by the former Secretary of the Interior, Tatiana Clouthier, to the columnist of the dayEnrique Galvan (there is a pack around the President and everyone is involved in the succession), qualified its scope. “With all due respect to Tatiana, that I love her very much (…) it is not that Adán and Marcelo and Claudia no longer work in her affairs.”

The question prompted him to reiterate his position on the presidential succession, celebrating the end of covertism, despite the associated costs. “We have to put an end to that, because it confuses those who are very close and come with our movement, but they still doubt: ‘It is not going to be that the President pulls an ace from under his sleeve, that he boosts someone.’ No, the people will decide, it is a survey”.

He made a historical tour of these practices, tapadismo and dedazo going back to the 19th century with Porfirio Díaz and Santa Anna. He considered that this break with the past should be done professionally, referring, once again, to surveys as a selection method in his movement. A general one to identify those with the greatest popular support and a second one to determine the candidate.

After describing what, in his opinion, the internal process should be, he considered that where it will really be complex is in the appointment of the opposition candidate because the applicants ranging between 38 and 40 have proliferated. There are too many, so he suggested doing several exercises demoscopic.

Unless they meet upstairs, that Claudio or Claudio’s bosses summon them, and there is a big finger therehe expressed.

Shortly before, and again without question, he addressed the sequel to the launch of a book against uswhich caused an unusual interest among the conventional media. No writer or writer has been so interviewed: there is nothing that comes close, for the desire to attack us, as never before in the history of the country. Why so much attack? Because a transformation is taking place.

He mentioned that I’m not even going to call it a libel but it is directed against us, he pointed out, recalling the phrase attributed to Cervantes: If the dogs bark, Sancho, it’s because we’re walking.