I met bankers: AMLO; They thank you for not changing the rules

Acapulco, Gro., The federal government fulfilled the commitment made at the beginning of the administration not to change the rules with which credit institutions operate and to foster an environment that would boost their growth and that of the economy, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador emphasized during his last participation as head of the federal Executive at a Banking Convention.

I thank you very much. I will no longer be at the next convention; I’m going to Palenque in five months; I say goodbye to you in advance. They have treated me very well, with respect, and I consider that they have been reciprocated: I have treated them with respect and I have fulfilled the commitments I made at the beginning of my governmenthe said, prompting applause from the audience.

At the beginning of his presentation, and in a joking tone, López Obrador announced to the bankers that he was going to show them the other data about his management, with a presentation in which the economic and social situation experienced in the country from 2018 to date was explained. His comment provoked laughter from bank executives, business leaders and legislators who were in the audience.

In an account of the labor situation, the President stated that today the country is almost at full employmentat the same time that there is a record in the salary of workers, which on average is 17,554 pesos per month.

Then he presented a slide in which he highlighted the revaluation of the peso against the dollar, of just over 18 percent in the last five years, and then said that of much help are the remittances from Mexicans living abroad, whom he described as heroes and heroines of their families and the country in general.

At the time the sheet containing the data on the banks’ profit generation was displayed, he indicated that he would not stop to talk about it, since they know the numbers well. Congratulations; It was a record yearhe stressed, and again ignited the applause.

The presentation continued with the presentation of macroeconomic management, at which time the President stopped to acknowledge Rogelio Ramírez de la O, head of the Ministry of Finance, who is a great secretary, who helps me a lot.

After detailing the oil situation, graphics were shown regarding the issues related to the security experienced in the country, a topic It has cost us a lot, but we have taken it there. He compared the data on homicide or car theft in previous six-year periods and showed a positive balance.

Getting up from Monday to Friday, and from 6 to 7 in the morning, at the security cabinet meeting, what you see and what you learn daily is not very pleasant, but that is why we are moving forward, and for a different policy , which consists of not thinking that evil can be confronted with evil; It is not the law of retaliation, tooth for tooth or eye for eye; If that were the case, we would all be toothless and one-eyed..

To conclude the presentation, the results of the banks’ profits appeared again, which in 2023 were more than 273 billion pesosbut he asked whoever was handling the slides to “change him, because here we are not going to balcony anyone… to take him away,” and the laughter returned to the venue.

He concluded his speech with a special recognition to Daniel Becker, the former president of the ABM, but he told Julio Carranza, current president of the top organization, that it was exceptional. Before, these two characters had given him recognition for his management.