Federal Deputy of the PT, Gerard Fernandez Noronaasked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to “remove his hands from the internal process” of the coalition of Morena-PT-PVEM to choose the Presidential candidate party in the 2024 elections.

At a press conference, he stressed that the president had already given enough signals about who he wanted to relieve him of the presidency and that a candidacy should not be imposed.

“We are in a delicate moment, in a moment when the entire machinery of government must refrain from participating, from advertising one of the people who aspire and I believe, legitimizing, I say this with all the admiration, affection and respect I have for a fellow president who has to take his hands off the process,” he said.

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He ratified his aspirations to be the presidential candidate of the Morena, PT and Verde coalition; asserted that he is not a “corcholata”, but a free man

Noroña has indicated that she accepts the decision that a poll be the method of choosing Morena’s nominee and that she will respect the results.

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He denounced that he had been invited by the head of energy, Rocío Nahle, to the inauguration of the first stage of the Dos Bocas refinery, but that he was then “uninvited” because the presidency had took control of the event and decided who would be invited. .

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“Why is the Presidency withdrawing my invitation?… It is my legitimate aspiration and the co-president cannot, must not reproduce behaviors of which he has been the victim, of exclusion, of abuse , of attempts to block his path to accede to the presidency of the Republic,” he said.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador named Prime Minister Claudia Sheinbaum, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Interior Secretary Adán Augusto among the possible candidates for the presidential candidacy of the “progressive flank”.