The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, have chosen Durango, Coahuila and Tamaulipas to begin a joint tour throughout the country this weekend. The tour marks the start of the Government transition process and “the goodbye tour” of the Mexican president. The border region with the United States, crossed by migrant transit problems, organized crime and drought, will be where the president’s last work trip begins accompanied by the president-elect. “We are going to be very happy to accompany you, to visit some regions of these three States,” she said in her morning conference on June 12.
The Mexican president announced that they will travel separately because Sheinbaum will do so on commercial airlines, as he did for most of his Administration. However, massive information assemblies are being prepared where both participate, in addition to the dialogue they maintain during the journeys to talk about the transition and the delivery and reception of the Government. The work trip begins in Durango and Coahuila, the only ones in which the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has resisted the advance of Morena and continues to be governed. On the other hand, Tamaulipas faces serious problems of drought, insecurity, migration and is a strategic point on the border with the United States, Mexico’s main trading partner.
López Obrador did not want to go into too many details about the tour that begins 13 days after the June 2 election, however, he trusts that people will help in the organization of the meetings that are expected to be massive. “This helps the president-elect and the constitutional president a lot to see the transition and the projects, what has been done, what is in process and what is needed.”
The president advanced some of the issues that Sheinbaum seeks to address in the northern region. Health, well-being, mining and customs are some of the thematic axes that the next president has in mind to present in the three States. Since the results of the election were known, which gave victory to the Morena candidate with almost 60% of the votes, the president opened the possibility of the president-elect accompanying him in meetings outside the country, with nothing confirmed until now. Wednesday.
The president has been careful not to give too much information, but he has made it clear that both teams are reviewing the logistics and in the coming days they will announce the program of the activities they will have and will be public. His statements come a day after Sheinbaum confirmed his participation in López Obrador’s ‘goodbye tour’. “I can tell you that we are already seeing how I am going to accompany President López Obrador this week, and we will be, if the agenda allows it, accompanying him on the days he goes out to talk about certain topics,” Sheinbaum said in a message on the 11th. of June.
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