The comment followed reports in the local press that Lopez Obrador sat down Sunday morning and had to cancel his tour, which his presidential spokesman denied.
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Lopez Obrador, 69, who has stated a history of trouble downtown, wrote that he would self-isolate for “a few days” in Mexico City.
“My center is one hundred percent and since I had to suspend the tour, I will be in Mexico City and celebrate, even if it is from afar, the 16 years of (his son) Jesus Ernesto,” he wrote.
Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador stands at the National Palace in a rite in Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 20, 2022. López Obrador tested positive for coronavirus for the third time on April 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
López Obrador was in poor health with COVID-19 in early 2021 and recovered after receiving what he described at the time as an experimental treatment. In January 2022, he announced that he had contracted COVID-19 momentarily, amid an uptick in coronavirus infections. in Mexico.
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López Obrador refused to heed mandatory mask orders and refused to wear a mask even at the height of the pandemic, unless necessary, such as on airline flights. He has notoriously refused to use the Mexican presidential plane, which he recently announced had been sold. a Tajikistan.
Presidential spokesman Jesus Ramirez did not respond to a query about whether the president would return to Mexico City on an advertising flight.
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The president said that as long as he remained isolated, Interior Secretary Adan Augusto Lopez would fill the presidential morning press conferences.
That may spice up the interior secretary’s crusade to win the presidential nomination of Lopez Obrador’s Morena party for the 2024 election. Lopez, who is not related to the president, is lately behind Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum at number one. center.