Mexico City’s head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, has reported that this Sunday’s march celebrating four years of government of the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was attended by 1.2 million people.
Sheinbaum, with data from the Secretariat of Citizen Security, has also reported that in the march called by the president there have been no injuries, while she boasted that «not a single glass was broken».
«Today something historic happened in Mexico City (…) Nearly 1.2 million people from the 31 states of the Republic and Mexico City marched», said the president in a video posted on her Twitter profile.
The governor thanked all the attendees, who «are always welcome» to the capital, «a city of liberties», she said before reiterating that she is excited for having achieved «a national historic march».
The demonstration started after 9:00 a.m. (local time) and, after five hours of marching, the Mexican president gave a speech in which he listed the achievements of his administration, with special emphasis on the social aspect of the same.
The president, who has assured that during his administration freedom of expression is guaranteed, named his policy model as «Mexican humanism», by allocating most of the State’s resources to the most needy».
«Politics is, among other things, thought and action, and although the fundamental thing is facts, it is important to define in the theoretical field the model of government that we are applying», said the Mexican leader, as reported by the newspaper ‘El Universal’.
Along these lines, López Obrador, accompanied by his cabinet, affirmed that the important thing about his government «is not quantitative, but qualitative».
López Obrador took to the streets of the capital to lead an extraordinary march of his supporters in view of the 2024 elections and after the opposition demonstration against his proposal to reform the National Electoral Institute (INE).
AMLO’s presence in the streets, the first time he has marched in six years, took place after a rally held last week by civil society organizations in defense of the INE, the target of a reform promoted by the Mexican president.
The opposition assures that the initiative, sent by the president to the Chamber of Deputies last April, is a strategy to eliminate the country’s autonomous electoral body.
The reform proposes, among other points, a cut in the INE and political parties’ budgets, in addition to the election of the Institute’s counselors and electoral magistrates by popular vote and not by appointment by legislators, according to the Mexican affiliate of CNN.
