Mexico City.- AMLO acknowledged that, despite living in the historic building of National Palacelocated in the heart of Mexico City, his residence is reduced to a modest apartment inside the property.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recalled that, during his campaign for the presidency, he had already expressed his desire to live in National Palaceachieving his goal when the then president Enrique Pena Nieto showed him the rest department that exists inside the building, which was also used by Philip Calderon.
“I would say modest, yes, it is a Palace, but I occupy an apartment that Calderón and Peña had a rest. As I spoke in the campaign that I wanted to live here when I visited President Peña, already being elected president, he told me ‘look, I’m going to show you’ and he already showed me the apartment and I live there, ”AMLO mentioned in La Mañanera.
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The President Andres Manuel revealed that it was difficult for him to convince his wife, the writer Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, to agree to live in the National Palace apartment, however, he managed to get her to move in with her and their youngest son.
Likewise, the president recalled that Benito Juárez lived in National Palace along with his wife, and died in this same building, a representative symbol of the history of Mexico.
Finally, AMLO mentioned that the apartment was furnished with objects that they already had, without the need to spend on new furniture.
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“With furniture from the Hacienda, without buying anything, we made the first meeting room. Not the historic meeting room where Madero was apprehended, which we will remember tomorrow, nor the office. In the part handled by the General Staff”.
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