Mexico City (EFE).- Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced that he will resign from his position in the Foreign Relations portfolio of the Government of Mexico at the same time that he presented to the official National Regeneration Movement (Morena) his 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.
Previously, the national president of Morena, Mario Delgado, had informed in a press conference that next Sunday the party will define the process that it will follow to choose the candidate of his party for the 2024 elections, in which the successor of the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“I have resolved and so I transmit it to you to request and submit my resignation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs starting Monday, June 12 at first hour, 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.
Regarding the 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 and colleagues.”
Rumors weighed on Ebrard that he would leave Morena and had already had approaches with other parties.
Marcelo Ebrard’s proposal
Ebrard has been Secretary of Foreign Relations since the beginning of the López Obrador administration, on December 1, 2018.
“I am certain that we will arrive at that National Council 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 ensure that the survey that will be carried out to select the Morena candidate “is broad, transparent and verifiable, ideally with a single question.”
On Monday, President López Obrador promised that he will not intervene in the election of the presidential candidate of his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), one year after the 2024 presidential elections.
Morena decide
This Tuesday, the president of Morena, Mario Delgado, pointed out that next Sunday “dates, surveys and requirements for applicants” will be defined. Listening to them and receiving their contributions.
He said, “the route to follow” will be defined in view of the presidential elections to be held in June of next year. To which, in principle, will contend, in addition to Ebrard, the head of Government of Mexico City and the current favorite, Claudia Sheinbaum. The Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López, and the leader of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal.
He also maintained that the doors are open for candidates from allied groups. Among those are Manuel Velasco, from the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, from the Labor Party (PT).
Delgado assured that the selection process will be impartial, democratic and transparent, and that it will be “the people of Mexico” who decide.
Regarding the rumors of Ebrard’s possible harshness, the possibility that he presents a different proposal, or that he decides to run as an opposition candidate, Delgado assured that “there is no disagreement” on the part of the chancellor.