President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused that the video in which he is captured saying that “he can no longer” was part of an information manipulation, and insisted that he will continue his term until the end of his presidential term.
“It is part of the manipulation that we are suffering in general, it is a moment, a decadent time in the management of information, not only in this case, but in everything.”
He added: “So here, as we are carrying out a process of transformation, our adversaries, the conservatives, are unhinged, really, looking for everything to affect us.”
In a morning conference he explained that in the media tour of the National Palace – when the video was recorded – he said that he is not in favor of re-election and that, if the people determine it in the consultation of revocation of mandate, he will conclude his mandate and then retire from political life.
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“Then they interpreted that I was tired, that I could no longer do it, because imagine, I have two and a half years left, if the people so decide, if the people decide to continue.”
López Obrador stressed that if it is determined that his term ends, he will not leave unfinished projects, which implies “that I must work, as I have always said, since I came to the Presidency, 16 hours a day, to make six years, 12 years.”
On February 24, a video of the president confessing that he contemplated stopping running for the presidency since the 2012 elections was disseminated through social networks and the media.
“I can’t do it anymore, I close my cycle and retire,” President @LopezObrador_ said during a tour of the National Palace with journalists covering the morning conference: pic.twitter.com/ZNjvBIk0gj
— Ciro Gómez Leyva (@CiroGomezL) February 25, 2022
He said he wrote a letter in which he announced his withdrawal from future candidacies and leaders; however, it did not release the text, considering that it could still move forward.
“It was a draft, I did it, I thought about it and I said: ‘well, they’re going to party, and I can still do something, I don’t feel irreplaceable, but I still can’; and then I no longer read the letter in the Zocalo and decided to go ahead and you know the recent history. But yes, I can’t do it anymore, I close my cycle and retire,” he concluded.
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