AMLO leads his last morning press conference, and declares: “I’m leaving very happy because I’m going to hand over the presidential sash to an exceptional woman”
On Monday, September 30, the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), gave his last daily press conference.
In his six years in office, he has held more than one thousand televised morning briefings that last an average of two and a half hours each. The so-called “Mañanera” has been his way of maintaining constant communication with his followers.
This Monday, September 30, 2024, the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), gave his last daily press conference.
AMLO presented data from his Government on job creation in Mexico, and federal investment in young people and assured that during his six-year term, millions of people were lifted out of poverty.
“Because one thing is to proclaim that for the good of all, the poor come first, and another thing is to get them out of poverty. We estimate nine million five hundred thousand people during our six-year term, and the same, inequality was reduced,” he said.
The number of people in poverty has decreased during this Government, according to the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) —something that several analysts attribute to the increase in the minimum wage and direct transfers of money through social programs—. Meanwhile, there is a decline in access to health care and other results are a matter of debate.
