FILE – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador greets the press after meeting with the security cabinet in the National Plaza in Mexico City, Friday, August 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
On October 1, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will hand over the presidential sash to Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, after more than ten years of political career in which he sought to be in front of the Federal Executive.
Previously, AMLO reported that once he leaves office he will retire and move to the country house known as “La Chingada”, located in Palenque, Chiapas, a place where he will live alone and stay away from politics.
Despite the harsh criticism he has faced in relation to the strong wave of violence experienced in states of the country such as Chiapas, Nuevo León and Sinaloa, as well as the occasions in which his family has been accused of alleged links in acts of corruption, , President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will end his six-year term as one of the leaders with the most popular support in the country.
AMLO will retire from public life when his six-year term ends; He said that he will live in his house in Palenque. (Facebook Andrés Manuel López Obrador)
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was born on November 13, 1953 in Tepetitlán, a town in the municipality of Macuspana, Tabasco.
He began his political career in 1976, after completing a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). This year, AMLO supported the candidacy of Tabasco poet Carlos Pellicer for Senator for the state of Tabasco.
Photo: Jovani Pérez – Infobae México
From August 2, 1996 to April 10, 1999 Andrés Manuel López Obrador held the position of president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), a party with which he would become Head of Government of the then Federal District in December 2000 and until July 2005.
From his first marriage to the sociologist Rocío Beltrán Medina, who died on January 12, 2003 due to cardiorespiratory arrest, and whom he married in April 1979, he had three children: José Ramón, Andrés Manuel and Gonzalo Alfonso López Beltrán .
Three years later, in 2006, AMLO married Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, with whom he had his fourth child: Jesús Ernesto.
Photo:Jovani Perez/Infobae Mexico
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic three times in the elections of 2006, 2012 and 2018.
However, it was only the third time that he assumed office as head of the Executive Branch, winning the election with 53.19% of the votes, which gave him an advantage of 17 million 503 thousand 363 votes over his closest opponent. , that is, the candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) Ricardo Anaya Cortés.
On his last day in office, Monday, September 30, AMLO will hold his last morning and say goodbye to the citizens to go to Palenque, Chiapas, a place where he plans to stay away from public life and, above all, from politics. .
