For these first 16 years in the Millennium, but in private, which will be more. Florestan.
Last Tuesday, President López Obrador led the reporters covering his activities around the palace and recalled that for the rally in the Zócalo, after losing the 2012 elections, he had planned to announce his retirement from politics, that he even wrote a draft but then I thought better not, because they were going to have a party and I thought I can still do something, I went ahead and you already know the current story.
And suddenly from that chronicle of the past he jumped to the present: But yes, I can’t take it anymore. In other words, I close my cycle, I retire and I no longer participate in anything that has to do with public life, nothing at all, and he talked about what he was going to do next to get ahead: I’m going to exercise, to walk, to read and write…
And there it was, when he said the important thing, the last line, the exception to all of the above, the real message:
I don’t want to participate. Only that there was an issue for the Homeland.
That, to me, is the key part of Tuesday’s message; that he retires from public life unless a matter for the Fatherland calls him back.
This phrase reaches another dimension when his caucus in the Senate has proclaimed him incarnation, head and symbol of the Homeland, the Nation and the People.
For the rest, with revocation or ratification, he will not be able to leave before or after the constitutional mandate of September 30, 2024.
The rest that he says or his loen, is accessory.
Not a day before, not a day after.
PATCHWORK
1. ILLEGAL.- The governor of Veracruz, Cuitláhuac García, was put in his place by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which declared his political weapon of outrage against authority unconstitutional, in which all his grudges fit and he has hundreds of people. Still the night before, his bench in Xalapa proposed to keep it but yesterday the highest constitutional court declared it unconstitutional. Thus the governors of Morena in the stellar times of the 4-T;
2. PADLOCK.- There are those who ask, their reasons will have, that the Senate not approve the appointment of Claudia Pavlovich as consul general in Barcelona. What happens is that the general consulates already go automatically due to the Herrera reform, which was the one that was made when Enrique Peña appointed Fidel Herrera for that position, and since it was not going to happen, the law was changed and the senatorial requirement was eliminated ; and
3. GROWTH.- Yesterday the president repeated that the economy is growing, but the INEGI has other data. In 2019, GDP fell 0.1 percent; in 2020, due to the pandemic, it plummeted 8.4 percent; in 2021 it grew only 4.8 percent, that is, his government accumulates a fall of 3.6 percent compared to 2019 and 5.6 compared to 2018. The balance for this year will continue to be negative and let’s see if it evens out in 2023.
See you tomorrow, but in private.
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