This September 1st, the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwhen he took his 6th and final Government Reporttook the opportunity to cheer on her successor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and hold a plebiscite by show of hands with his supporters to ask them to support the reform Judicial reform.
While talking about his initiative, those attending the Plinth They spontaneously began to chant: “Out with Piña! Out with Piña!”, in rejection of Norma Piña, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN)who opposes the reform that proposes that the judges by popular vote.
López Obrador took advantage of the moment to attack the Judiciary of which he said: “in another Power, private medical care is maintained and even plastic surgeries are performed at the expense of the treasury.” This intensified the cries in repudiation of the Minister President.
López Obrador immediately made a survey by show of hands to support his reform to the Judicial Branch and said: “Let’s see here, we are going to do a consultationalthough tomorrow they are going to criticize us (my opponents), but it is very funny, because they get so angry, they even make fools of themselves, I say this with all respect and we could not live so bored.
Let’s see, what do you prefer that the Ministers “Whether the president and the senators choose them or whether the people choose them?” the president said, to which the audience unanimously responded: “the people.”
The president stressed: “But we are going to do it as formally as possible, because otherwise they will believe that it is one of those surveys that ‘Massive Caller’ did to deceive themselves,” he said.
He immediately organized the survey: “Let’s see, raise your hand if you think it is better than the Ministers already them judges “Let the president and the senators elect them, raise your hand! …because he doesn’t see anyone (in favor). Let those who consider that it is better that judges and magistrates be elected by the people raise their hands, lower them, abstentions?” he asked.
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AMLO referred to the criticism of the Embassy of the United States in Mexico to the Judicial reform and stressed: “Well, that helps to understand what the people’s feelings are and also so that our neighbors, friends and neighbors of the United States internalize it and do not forget that Democracy in America, in the United States, began by electing judgeslet them not forget that in the United States,” he said.
Criticism of the opposition
After almost an hour and a half of speech, at around noon, López Obrador said that he laughs at the opposition, because the things that remain pending will be concluded by his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum.
“But what happiness that the one who is going to replace one is an exceptional woman who is going to give continuity to the transformation, that’s why I laugh, because the things that are going to be pending, well, I’m absolutely sure that they are going to be concluded with how extraordinary the President-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo“López Obrador said during his government report, which turned into a rally in the Zócalo, in front of his supporters.
The Tabasco native also denied that crime rules in Mexico and said that “there is no narco-state here” and thanked the Secretaries of Defense and Navy, Luis Cresencio Sandoval and Jose Rafael Ojeda Duranrespectively, their support in matters of security and said that he is “more than satisfied” with their performance.
Before finishing his report, the president said that he will retire happy for having reduced the poverty and stressed that she is also happy, because the person to whom she will present the presidential sash is a woman with principles and began to chant: “President, President.”
Finally, he advised the audience to remember that “happiness does not reside in the moneyin material possessions, in titles and in power by the canis being well with oneself, with our awareness and with others. Lastly, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Long live the people of Mexico! Long live Mexico!” he concluded. While governors, legislators and bureaucrats applauded along with the 25,000 attendees and chanted “it is an honor to be with Obrador.”
During his report, he stressed that in economic terms he will close his mandate with a growth of 1 percent, something he said is truly “exceptional” given the adverse economic environment.
At 10:36 the president left National Palace together with his wife, Beatriz Gutierrez Muller and he went up to a small platform prepared to give his report.
The president had barely confirmed that during his administration 100,000 citizens were lifted out of poverty each month, totaling 9.5 million Mexicans, when an elderly man sitting in the front row fell sunstroke from the intense heat.
In front of him, the president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stood, in addition to the 23 governors, senators and deputies emanating from Brunettea party that the president himself formed as an opponent in 2014. Also with him were the elected governors and legislators, such as the next head of the capital’s government, Clara Brugadaand the next governor of Veracruz, Rocio Nahleamong others.
Masters of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) They occupied the first rows of the 25 thousand seats arranged in the Zócalo for the public. Wearing white embroidered shirts of their union, they identified themselves behind the Morena deputies and special guests.
López Obrador said that thanks to his fight against corruption he managed to improve health services in the country and stressed that it was thanks to his success in ending the fact that “communicators” no longer receive money from the budget allocated to people’s medical care.
The fight against corruption was one of the main themes of the president’s speech and he said, “according to our calculations, we have saved two billion pesos” during the six-year term, thanks to this battle.
In economic matters, he said that Mexico went from 15th to 12th place globally.
He also assumed himself as the president of employment by highlighting low unemployment figures: “And that is even though I did not presume to be the president of employment,” he commented, while citing that Mexicoaccording to its figures, is the second country in terms of unemployment.