The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, led a massive march this Sunday to celebrate his fourth year in government and he explicitly rejected the possibility of being re-elected, in a show of force from the left ahead of the 2024 elections and after the massive opposition protest that took place two weeks ago.
“No to re-election, we are maderistas! Effective suffrage, effective democracy, no re-election“, exclaimed López Obrador in the speech with which he closed the act before tens of thousands of people in the capital of Mexico. The president thus recalled his attachment to the slogan that the revolutionary Francisco launched in 1910, against a 30-year dictatorship Madero, who became president in 1911 and was shot in a military coup in 1913.
Accompanied by the main leaders of Morena and the allied parties, López Obrador participated in the main act at the Independence Monument. The head of state seeks to keep his party in power after the 2024 elections, an objective that is favored given the lack of strong leadership on the part of the opposition.