Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, p. 10
On the eve of his retirement, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that as of October 1, he will resign from his party membership in Morena.
In yesterday’s morning press conference, in response to a question about the change in the leadership of the cherry-colored party, the president made it clear that after 10 years of having founded this political institute, he will no longer participate politically in it.
I am very happy with that (with the change of leadership in Morena). I also resign from party militancy, but I am very happy.
he commented briefly, while reiterating once again his satisfaction at the arrival of Claudia Sheinbaun Pardo to the Presidency of the Republic.
A week after leaving the leadership of the Executive, the Tabasco native said: I’m retiring and I’m going to turn off the radio and the television, and the Internet as well. If anything, I’ll turn them on when there’s a baseball game on. And I’m going to be working.
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He also insisted that he will spend the next few years at his country house in Palenque, Chiapas, writing a book about the cultural and historical greatness of Mexico.
Happy
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López Obrador said he was happy both because Sheinbaum will be the next president and because of the change in the national leadership of Morena, although he was careful not to mention his son Andrés López Beltrán, who was elected by the party delegates as Secretary of Organization, and only spoke about Luisa Alcalde, the new Morena president.
He stressed that he is I am very happy because the people of Mexico knew how to elect the new president (of the Republic). An exceptional, extraordinary, intelligent, experienced, sensitive, honest woman, with good feelings, with a good heart; she is the best thing that could have happened to the country in these times.
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He also added: The same with the arrival of Luisa María (Mayor) to the presidency of Morena. I congratulate all the delegates of Morena, those who participated in the council and the new leaders of Morena.
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