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Mexico City.- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will lead a massive event in the capital’s Zócalo this Sunday, on the occasion of his Sixth Government Report.
This is the last public event in which the President will be able to address his followers from the Plaza de la Constitución.
With the rally, the farewell of the Tabasco politician practically begins, who, in just 30 days, will hand over the presidential sash to his successor, the Morena member Claudia Sheinbaum.
The rally is led by López Obrador in a plaza full of supporters, but at the foot of the flagpole a group of mothers of missing persons are still camping, as they have been for two weeks.
The searchers and activists arrived at the Zócalo on August 18 and, until now, have not been received by the President.
Preparations for the celebration began at the beginning of the week, with the erection of structures, metal fences, towers, screens, speakers, a bandstand and 25,000 chairs for the attendees.
The mobilization of supporters was carried out by the Morena structure and also by the 23 governors from the Fourth Transformation (4T).
Among the VIP guests are Sheinbaum, members of the legal and expanded Cabinet, future members of the federal government, acting and elected governors, deputies and senators, as well as leaders of Morena, PT and PVEM from all over the country.
The president is also accompanied by members of his family: his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez and his children.
Since winning the presidential election, López Obrador has filled the Zócalo on at least nine occasions: on July 1, 2018, to celebrate his victory; on December 1 of that year, on the occasion of his inauguration; on July 1, 2019, to commemorate the first year of his victory at the polls and on December 1 of that year for the anniversary of his coming to power.
Then came the pandemic and the first mass event in the Plaza de la Constitución, after the lockdown, was on December 1, 2021.
On November 27, 2022, the Tabasco native led a 3.9-kilometer march from the Angel of Independence to the Historic Center, in which he walked surrounded by a crowd for five and a half hours. He closed the mobilization with a speech.
On March 18, 2023, he gathered his supporters on the platform, in front of the National Palace, to commemorate the Oil Expropriation.
In July of that same year, he celebrated the fifth anniversary of his electoral victory and, although he has now invited his supporters back to the last Government Report, he has already announced that the largest mass event will be on September 15, during his last Cry of Independence.
For the political movement led by López Obrador, the Zócalo has been a symbol and the epicenter of the mobilization.
He arrived there in 1992, after the Exodus for Democracy, and from there he also defended himself during the impeachment in 2005.
In the post-election conflict of 2006, he camped and lived there for 48 days, the same amount of time that the occupation of Paseo de la Reforma lasted in protest against the election results. That year, on November 20, he was sworn in as “Legitimate President.”
The Tabasco politician went to the Zócalo in anticipation of the 2012 federal election and then towards 2018.
In recent days, the President said that he will offer, in the square, a summary of the 100 commitments he made in that same place almost 70 months ago, when he assumed the Presidency.
Although he also intends to make a list of works and programs that were not included in that first list and that were implemented throughout his Administration.
López Obrador presents this latest report in the midst of an atmosphere of tension with the judiciary, due to the constitutional reform he is promoting in Congress so that judges are subject to voting at the polls.
The country also faces confrontations with the United States and Canada, the country’s two main trading partners; negative economic indicators, such as the exchange rate, and recent failed operations to capture drug lords. (AGENCIA REFORMA)
Author: Reforma Agency
