López Obrador reveals in his book what his plan was for Sheinbaum: campaign coordinator in 2018 and Secretary of the Interior

The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has given a boost to his party's candidate to succeed him in the Government, Claudia Sheinbaum.

López Obrador has also placed his confidence in that the majority of Mexicans will vote on June 2 for the continuity of his political project, led by the Morena standard bearer.

“I am convinced that we will have the support of the people to consolidate the first stage of the transformation of our country.

Continuity with change is assured.

There is nothing to fear.

Of course, we have to stay united,” says the president in his latest book on politics,

Thank you!

(Planet, 2024).

The president maintains that he is leaving the Government calm and satisfied, because he believes that he helped “begin a new stage in the public life of Mexico,” and secondly, because Sheinbaum, whom he describes as “sensitive, incapable of committing an injustice and “Above all, honest,” she is the candidate to take over from him in power.

“I am serene and happy because Claudia Sheinbaum, who has replaced me in the leadership of the transformation movement, represents a true guarantee that we will have a future of more justice and more honesty in our beautiful and beloved Mexico,” he writes.

The president, 70 years old and who has previously published a dozen books, tells—in a passage from his relationship with Sheinbaum unknown until today—what his original plans for her were.

“In 2018, I wanted her to be the head of the presidential campaign, because in addition to helping me with that, I thought we were going to win and I would be the first female Secretary of the Interior,” she remembers.

“I discussed it with her, but since I told her, instead of being happy for her, she became sad,” he adds.

“I asked her what she thought and she answered that she wanted to run within Morena for the candidacy for head of government;

I told him to weigh it, because Ricardo Monreal was well positioned and could beat him in the survey.”

Finally, Sheinbaum triumphed internally, which caused a crisis in Morena, as Monreal accused that the results of the survey were manipulated by the party leadership.

López Obrador chose Tatiana Clouthier to coordinate his campaign, Sheinbaum became head of government (“I maintain that she acted well in this assignment,” says López Obrador), and the Secretary of the Interior fell to former Supreme Court minister Olga Sánchez Cordero. , who later resigned (she was succeeded in that position by Adán Augusto López and now Luisa María Alcalde).

López Obrador has made a long review, over 555 pages, of his origins in politics;

the frustrated presidential campaigns of 2006 and 2012;

the construction of his party, Morena;

the behind-the-scenes of the 2018 campaign—when he finally triumphed—and the achievements of his government.

He has also dedicated a chapter to explaining the foundations of his political doctrine, which he has named Mexican Humanism.

It has been there where he has drawn up the roadmap for Sheinbaum, his dolphin.

“No zigzagging,” he points out.

“No half measures.

We will never accept that a minority is imposed in Mexico at the cost of the humiliation and impoverishment of the majority,” he adds.

López Obrador defends that anchoring in the poor is “playing it safe” to transform the social order.

“Let us never forget that the people who support the Fourth Transformation are the people.

Therefore, we should never betray him,” he points out.

And he adds: “We must have faith in the wisdom and loyalty of the people.

“The people do not betray.”

The president maintains that he is confident that with Sheinbaum "there will be no deviations and the commitment to prioritize serving those most in need will be maintained."

Of the opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, he criticizes her links with the PAN and the business class.

"As she was born in a town in Hidalgo, they thought that her origin would be useful to offer a supposed popular image, when in reality she is ladino and just as classist and racist as the conservatives of higher rank or level on the economic, social and political scale of the country." country,” he says.

“Obviously, people are not fooled, they do not swallow that bait,” he adds, “as we can see, although the oligarchy and the means of manipulation insist on inflating it, the balloon has not risen nor will it rise, because in these new "In times of transformation, the people do not allow the forgers, the opportunists and the corrupt to take flight."

In the book, the Executive reviews his relationship with the official candidate: how he met her and invited her to collaborate with him when he was head of Government in Mexico City (2000-2005);

how it supported him when President Vicente Fox tried to unseat him to derail his presidential aspirations;

how Sheinbaum later organized the Adelitas and participated in the mobilizations against the privatization of oil during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón.

She “she was the founder of Morena;

“She always went to any state or region where she was commissioned to help candidates from our movement,” she highlights.

López Obrador reiterates that at the end of his six-year term, in September, he will retire from public life, and announces that he will dedicate himself to writing one last book, which will no longer be political (Thank you! It

will

be the last of that type), but who will do a historical study on “the predominant thought in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican societies and their contrasts with the ideas brought by Europeans.”

Comedian Eugenio Derbez, candidate?

López Obrador recounts memories of the 2018 election, his third attempt to win the presidency of the Republic.

The president says that the “oligarchic group” behind the PRI and the PAN — which had separately nominated José Antonio Meade and Ricardo Anaya — was “desperate” at the probability that none of those candidates could defeat López Obrador at the polls. .

That group, according to the book, was made up of businessmen Eduardo Tricio, Alejandro Ramírez, Agustín Coppel, Roberto Hernández, Claudio X. González, Carlos Slim, Eugenio Garza Herrera, Alberto Baillères, José Antonio Fernández, Daniel Servitje, Germán Larrea, Fernando Senderos and Valentín Díez Morodo, as well as intellectuals opposed to their movement.

The president affirms that the businessmen sought to involve the then outgoing president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to convince him to intervene in the elections to stop the leftist candidate.

According to López Obrador, they first asked Peña Nieto to ask the PRI candidate, Meade, to decline his candidacy in favor of Anaya.

Peña Nieto rejected the proposal.

Then, López Obrador adds, they offered that Anaya decline in favor of Meade.

The PRI president did not give in either.

"Obviously, Peña watched surveys and had to weigh whether it was worth adopting a decision of that complexity just to please a group of private sector gangsters to whom he had given everything and who in the end had betrayed him or had never opened the mouth to defend it,” writes López Obrador.

And he adds a confidence that he shared with the PRI member: “It is not crazy what President Peña once told me about the treacherous nature of the economic oligarchy.”

López Obrador mentions a last attempt by businessmen to win the 2018 elections, a revelation not told until now.

“A few months before the elections, as we maintained a wide advantage in the polls, the oligarchic group, in desperation, visited Peña again to tell him that they had polls according to which the comedian Eugenio Derbez would beat me;

One of my deep throats told me that Peña responded: 'Gentlemen, please be serious.'

The president says that the business group also went to Slim to offer him a unique candidacy from the “PRIAN”, a passage that López Obrador recently revealed in one of his

Mañaneras

De him conferences.

“The veracity of this proposal was confirmed to me by Slim himself, who did not accept the challenge, arguing that he had another job,” says the president.

“He was and remains a businessman and certainly not a fool,” he adds.

López Obrador affirms—another revealing detail—that Arturo Elías Ayub, Slim's son-in-law, “was seeking to be a candidate for governor of the State of Mexico.”

López Obrador calls the deck of business candidates —Derbez included— and his alleged attempts to derail his aspirations in his book a “comedy of betrayal.”

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