Elections Mexico 2024: Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard resigns to focus on presidential candidacy

The Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced this Tuesday that he will resign from his position in the Foreign Relations portfolio of the Government of Mexico while presenting the official National Regeneration Movement (Morena) your proposal for the selection of a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.

Ebrard, 63, said that next Monday, June 12, he will formally leave his position as head of Mexican diplomacy.

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Previously, the national president of Morena, Mario Delgadohad reported at a press conference that next Sunday the party will define the process it will follow to choose its party’s candidate for the 2024 elections, in which the successor to the current Mexican president will be chosen, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

“I have resolved and I hereby transmit it to you to request and submit my resignation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs starting Monday, June 12 first thing in the morning, with the purpose of fully dedicating myself with joy and resolution to defending the project headed by the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, throughout the country”, Ebrard said at a press conference.

“I am excited and proud to be part of this government and I am also excited to act consistently with what we have proposed and that is why I am leaving office and I am going to meet with the citizen and her citizens”, he added.

About him National Council of Morena that the party has announced for next Sunday, June 11, Ebrard confirmed that he will participate. “It is my privilege to tell you that I will participate in the National Council of Morena with my colleagues.”.

Rumors weighed on Ebrard that he would leave Morena and had already had approaches with other parties.

Ebrard has been Foreign Secretary since the beginning of the López Obrador administration, on December 1, 2018.

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“I am certain that this National Council will arrive with a unitary proposal in which we agree that guarantees fairness, transparency and clear rules because our movement has and will sustain and defend its moral authority.”.

In addition, he asked to make sure that the survey that will be carried out to select the Morena candidate “be comprehensive, transparent and verifiable, ideally with a single question”.

On Monday, President López Obrador promised that he would not intervene in the election of his party’s presidential candidate, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), one year after the 2024 presidential elections.

This Tuesday, the president of Morena, Mario Delgado, pointed out that next Sunday they will define “dates, surveys and requirements for applicants”, listening to them and receiving their contributions.

It will be defined, he said, “the route to follow” facing the presidential elections to be held in June next year, which, in principle, will contend, in addition to Ebrard, the head of Government of the Mexico City and the current favourite, Claudia Sheinbaum; the Secretary of the Interior, Adam Augusto Lopezand the leader of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal.

He also maintained that the doors are open for candidates from allied groups, among whom are outlined Manuel Velascoof the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), and Gerardo Fernandez Noronaof the labor party (PT).

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Delgado assured that the selection process will be impartial, democratic and transparent, and that it will be “the people of Mexico“who decides.

Regarding the rumors of the possible harshness of Ebrard, the possibility that he presents a different proposal, or that he decides to run as an opposition candidate, Delgado assured that “there is no disagreementby the chancellor.

Source: Elcomercio

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