Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good, too. It's good to see you all. Well, today with us is Luisa María Alcalde, legal counsel; Ingrid Gómez, undersecretary for a life free of violence and currently in charge of the Ministry of Women; please, take a seats. And also with us from the Attorney General's Office, Maribel Bojorquez, who heads the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Crimes of Violence against Women, Vulnerable Groups and Human Trafficking. We are going to present today the initiative to sanction femicide.
Do you remember that we made a modification to the Constitution so that femicide could be investigated in the same way throughout the country through a general law? That initiative was approved by all political forces in the Congress of the Union. And now, for the next term that begins in September, we are presenting today and already sending the initiative of the law that all states must follow so that femicide is investigated in the same way throughout the country and there is zero impunity, and so that the prosecutors' offices do the same work in all the entities of the Republic. For this, Luisa María will present first, then Maribel, and finally Ingrid. That's right. Go ahead. Here. Yes. Yes. Here. Perfecto.
With your permission, President. Today, here at this morning press conference, the President of Mexico will sign this general law to be sent to the Congress of the Union for its discussion and, of course, we hope for its approval. So, let's explain what this important law consists of.
Well, first, to put in context what is the importance, why the need for a general law. First, there were fragmented criminal offenses. The 32 states regulated femicide differently, differently regarding the elements of the criminal offense, regarding gender reasons, aggravating factors, and also the penalties for this crime. There were deficiencies in investigation processes, the incorrect classification of violent crimes, lack of context analysis of violence, absence of standards with a gender perspective that often led to loss of evidence and underreporting of femicides, crimes that were catalogued as homicides when they were really femicides.
Absence of protocols. The prosecutors' offices did not have or do not have standardized and mandatory action protocols to investigate and prosecute femicide as such, as well as to attend to victims. And finally, lack of information mechanisms, absence of standardized public records that prevented the detection of risk contexts, history of violence and circumstances of the crime, as well as the design of prevention and strategic attention policies. For this reason, as the President rightly points out, on May 6 the Constitution was reformed. Here it was informed, the Constitution is reformed and Congress is empowered to issue a general law. That general law is the one we will be signing today by the President and sending to Congress. What does it consist of? Go ahead.
Number one, the criminal offense is standardized. The person who takes the life of a woman for gender reasons commits the crime of femicide, and 10 gender reasons are established, among them signs of sexual violence, crimes motivated by stereotypes or prejudices, history of violence against the victim, contexts of power asymmetry. A penalty already standardized throughout the country of 50 to 70 years in prison is established, and 19 aggravating factors are established to increase the penalty in different circumstances, among others, when the victim is a girl, adolescent or elderly adult, is pregnant or lives with a disability, is a journalist, human rights defender or migrant, the crime is committed by a public servant, or the victim presents signs of violence such as acid attacks or flammable substances. It is also worth highlighting that the attempt is sanctioned with a prison sentence of between half and two-thirds of this penalty of 50 to 70 years. Go ahead.
Additional responsibilities, in addition to the deprivation of liberty penalty. The law contemplates additional sanctions such as loss of inheritance rights, loss of guardianship and custody, loss of parental authority, and also dismissal and disqualification in the case of public servants. Exculpatory excuses or mitigating factors for the crime of femicide are prohibited. The crime, its sanction and the reparation of damages are imprescriptible. It is not a crime that can prescribe, and finally, one cannot access the different benefits. Criteria of opportunity do not apply, with sentence modification, conditional release, and in no case the path of amnesty. Let's listen to the prosecutor's office regarding the investigation.
Go ahead. Good morning. With your permission, President. This initiative is based on a fundamental premise. In cases of femicide, there is an obligation to investigate with due diligence in a reinforced manner. For this, the standardization of specialized action protocols is established, which must be applied by all authorities responsible for the administration of justice in the country. These protocols must incorporate, among other elements, the gender perspective, reinforced due diligence, analysis of violence contexts, adequate pursuit of evidence, and also coordination between security institutions, justice administration, and above all, attention to victims. It is also established that the specialized unit or prosecutor's office that initiated the investigation, as well as the Public Ministry attached to it, must intervene continuously in all stages of the criminal procedure, from its beginning to the execution of sanctions. All this to guarantee due diligence, continuity, procedural continuity, and the comprehensive protection of victims' rights. It is also provided in the project that the Attorney General's Office and the Local Prosecutor's Offices or Attorney General's Offices must have specialized units or prosecutor's offices for the knowledge, investigation and prosecution of the crime of femicide, in addition to having public ministries, police, technical and forensic personnel specialized and trained in victim attention. In addition, the investigation of the crime of femicide and protection measures, which will be developed in investigation plans as well as criminal investigation techniques, as well as in women's human rights with a gender perspective. The bill also provides for victims' rights to comprehensive reparation of damages, the establishment of institutional coordination, and the establishment of public policies. To present this part, I yield the floor to the Undersecretary of Women, Ingrid Gómez.
Good morning to all. With your permission, President. As Prosecutor Maribel and our counsel rightly said, this general law not only has aspects of investigation, but also has everything related to victims' rights, and recognizes as victims' rights access to truth and justice, urgent medical and psychological care for survivors and indirect victims, who in this case are children and adolescents, many times specialized and free legal assistance, comprehensive care for girls, boys and adolescents who are left orphaned by the femicide of their mothers. The restitution, and this is very important because it has also been an element that victims have highlighted, the restitution or delivery of the body in a dignified, respectful and assisted manner, and translation and interpretation services when dealing with indigenous populations. In addition, if we go to the next one, please, comprehensive reparation of damages is contemplated in the bill and this reparation must be transformative, adequate, effective, rapid and proportional. And the responsible federal entities must attend to the comprehensive well-being of indirect victims, with emphasis on the daughters and sons of the victims. The persons, and this is something that has also been requested, media and digital platforms must respect the dignity of direct and indirect victims. One thing is to inform and another is to make an apology for violence with images and contents that devalue or degrade the dignity of the bereaved and of the victims themselves. All authorities within the scope of their competences have the obligation to guarantee, and that is why transparency is very important, the right to truth, the right to know what the investigations have been, the processes that are taking place in the investigation of femicide. And if we go to the next one, it is contemplated within the project a part of public policies with an emphasis on, again, children orphaned by femicide. Public policies will be articulated through the national system to prevent, attend to, sanction and eradicate violence. This national system is presided over by our President and in it are summoned the governors, the women's agencies in the federal entities, of course, the Attorney General's Office, and whose purpose is to verify and promote that in all states, as we are standardizing the criminal offense, there are the institutional, normative and structural elements of prevention, attention, sanction and eradication of femicidal violence. In addition, it is intended, once approved, that the harmonization of the criminal offense, the updating of the protocols that are also contemplated in the law, the specialized protocols in investigation and attention, must be promoted. This is very important to implement awareness and information campaigns to prevent the crime of femicide, the creation of technical support groups that can be created under the system and with the national comprehensive program to prevent, attend to, sanction and eradicate violence against women, and the updating of femicide records at the national level. The next one, please. The comprehensive policies through the multi-service platform that the Mexican State has, the free centers, the justice centers. We have 100 free centers, we have 85 justice centers, around 99 shelter spaces, the 079 line with option one and the network of women lawyers, almost 100 women lawyers throughout the country to attend and accompany families, children, girls, indirect victims in the crime of femicide. Another very important and fundamental thing is the creation of the National Registry of Girls, Boys and Adolescents Orphaned by Femicide. The PAR is reviewing and updating the protocol for attending girls in this regard, because it is very important to give legal certainty and certainty of life to the children who are often transiting without that certainty, to know how many they are, where they are, and to be able to provide them with all the protection and attention of the State. And also the comprehensive protection plans for those victims who are survivors, who have survived an attempt and who require an articulated policy in terms of attention. Well, that would be all, President, and this is the law that will be signed today by our President and will be presented to Congress. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
As the first woman President, I assumed the responsibility of protecting women from violence, against violence. And for this, the first thing we did was to bring to the Constitution the rights of women that were not fully established. Substantive equality, which means equality in all areas of people's lives between men and women, but particularly also recognizing women's rights, because there are particular rights of women and that is what substantive equality refers to. Right there in the Constitution we established women's right to a life free of violence and we established that equal work, equal pay, that there should be no wage gap between women and men if they perform the same activity. That was established in the Constitution on October 3, 2024, we sent that initiative to Congress and that same year it was approved, so that women are already in the Constitution. From there, different laws were approved that have to do with having enough norms in our country so that what we wrote in the Constitution is fulfilled.
The worst crime of violence against women, the worst form of discrimination, of unworthy treatment towards a woman, is death, femicide, which means murdering, taking the life of a woman for the mere fact of being a woman. It is a hate crime associated with being a woman. In our country, even though femicides are decreasing, femicides are still committed and many of them, unfortunately, remain unpunished. What we have to guarantee to eliminate, to eradicate femicide in our country is, on the one hand, prevention, attention, knowledge, education, training through the recognition of equality between men and women and dignified treatment between people and non-discrimination and no to machismo, as well as zero impunity for the crime of femicide. What happens in the prosecutors' offices currently? In some prosecutors' offices, the violent death of a woman is still catalogued as suicide, or the violent death of a woman, even when all the evidence has to do with a direct family member, they take a long time to recognize the testimony of family members regarding the violence the woman may have previously experienced. What this law does is guarantee that in all prosecutors' offices the crime of femicide is worked on equally. Avoid to the maximum that it can be catalogued as suicide. Avoid to the maximum that if the presumption of the culprit is known, of who committed this crime, which unfortunately in most cases is a family member, unfortunately close to 90% of femicide cases were committed by the partner, the ex-partner or some direct family member. And many times, even if the family tells the prosecutors' office that she lived with violence, it is difficult to recognize or it is said, why didn't the woman report it previously, when many times she didn't report it out of fear. This general law guarantees that all this can be reduced to the maximum and that we really have zero impunity for femicides. What is it based on? On work that was done at the time by the current Attorney General of the Republic, the Attorney General of Justice of Mexico City at the time, Ernestina Godoy, who made a very clear procedure that allowed reducing impunity, which has to do with the recognition of what family members say, with this continuous shift that Maribel talks about, and with the training and education of all public ministries. So, it is a very important law and it has to do with the maximum sanction for that person who has committed a homicide against a woman for the mere fact of being a woman. So, a very important day today. Well, before moving on to the questions, today is Wednesday of housing, I had forgotten, and we have a very brief link with Morelos.
Go ahead, Octavio, Edna, Margarita. Good morning, President. We greet you here with much affection from Cuautla, Morelos. I am accompanied, of course, by the director of Infonavit, Octavio Romero, by the secretary of Sedatu, Erna Vega, and by the family, one of the beneficiary families of this great housing project, which is Mr. René Sánchez and his wife Cintia Hernández and the children who have been standing since very early to greet you. Very happy to participate in this great national housing program. Morelos is working to be able to cover that goal of land to build these 10,000 homes that we have as a goal in the state. President, thank you very much and here we are with you as always. Thank you, Margarita. Edna, President, good morning. Here accompanying engineer Octavio Romero and with the colleague of the governor, a family that has a very important testimony to share. To you I will be very brief. It is the fourth session of this Wednesday of housing that we have held in 20 entities of the country. Morelos. Here we go. New homes in what remains of the administration. The progress percentage is 16.2% and with this new housing program the investment will be greater than 14,400 million pesos. The homes are very beautiful, President. I leave the floor to Octavio to later see the home and the details that will be transmitted right now. Thank you. Thank you, Edna. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, President. We are in Cuautla, Morelos, in the Infonavit Plan de Ayala subdivision. This is event 33 of home delivery and we already have 104 housing complexes in the country where we are delivering homes. Of these 104 complexes, President, in 36 the apartments are already totally sold out. And we have already placed 28,200 homes among the beneficiaries at an average daily rate of 170 homes per day. Here in this Infonavit Plan de Ayala subdivision, 528 homes are being built for 528 families and today we are going to deliver the keys to 128 of them. The goal we have for the state of Morelos for Infonavit is 13,000 homes. We already have more than 2,000 contracted and more than 2,300 to be signed in the coming days, which will take us to more than 34% of the six-year term goal. And to give you an idea of this, President, this housing program will be on the order of 8,150 million pesos, which is equivalent to the construction budget of 3 years of the state of Morelos. That is the size and importance of this housing project for well-being from Infonavit. And well, we are with the Sánchez Hernández family, with Cintia, with René and with their three children, with Samantha who is 10 years old, with Elián who is six and with Jorge who is four. And we are going to proceed, if you have no objection, to deliver the keys. What happened is that I don't know who I gave the key to. Ah, here to Samantha. If you allow us, President, we move on to... Good morning, President. Good morning. Welcome. René is going to tell us. René is already asleep. Welcome. Go ahead. Come into your home, your new home. Let's see, tell us the names of the members of your family. Yes. My wife is called Cindia Hernández Mendoza. Uh-huh. The little one who is still sleeping is called Jorge Ángel. The middle one is called Elián Caleb Sánchez Hernández and my daughter, the oldest, is called Samantha Vanel López. Samantha. The truth is we are very happy. We are here present. We thank you, President, for this great achievement, for this project that was achieved and thanks to that we will be enjoying our home. The truth is we are very happy. We send you a big hug and now that we are going to enjoy all the benefits and since it has two bedrooms, a spacious kitchen, dining room, living room, it has its bathroom, laundry area and enjoy a balcony. The truth is it is very good, spacious spaces and thank you very much. Thank you. Did you find out, René? Yes, my wife... Good morning, President. Well, we mainly found out because my grandmother is a faithful follower of yours, every morning she doesn't miss the morning show, so she was one of the people who kept insisting that we come, that we approach, to see if we had the opportunity to acquire a home. Many greetings to your grandmother. What is her name? Her name is Eusevia. Eusevia, we send you greetings. We lived in the Istaxwal neighborhood and honestly we lived with her, with my grandmother, who has been the person who has given us a lot of support, right? Since we have our children, she shared a room with us that was 4x4, but honestly it was a somewhat reduced space for the five of us. So this new project is going to help us a lot because my children are going to have their space, they are going to live a little more comfortably and with the privacy that a family needs, right? Of course. Congratulations. Thank you, President. Enjoy your new home. Thank you, President. Thank you, President. How beautiful. Thank you very much, President, from the heart. We appreciate it and a big hug from our part and thank you very much. Thank you. A big hug. Good morning, President. Congratulations, Octavio, Edna, Margarita. Well, let's move on to the questions on the topic. Let's see, the colleague. Thank you, President. Good morning, Jessica Aupart, independent journalist from the media Enfoque Oportuno. President, your government has precisely reiterated the protection of women and the fight against gender violence, they are your priority. This is due to the high rate of femicides in the country. What message does the President send regarding the case of the former director of Pemex, Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, who faces a process for family violence and has already obtained the revocation of preventive detention? And my second question would be, how to guarantee that even when dealing with a former high-level official there are no privileges and that the process is carried out without impunity? Well, the detention of Víctor itself shows that regardless of friendship, of positions, the law must be complied with. And in any case, the Morelos prosecutor's office determines under what procedures the judge and his partner or ex-partner, under what procedure he must follow. Remember that in the case of violence against women, depending on what the prosecutor's office and the judge determine, there can be different reparation measures, always and when, from our point of view, there are precautionary measures, that is, that he cannot approach the victim. These precautionary measures range from reparation of damages or some other mechanisms established by the judge himself based on the accusation of the prosecutor's office and of both people. It is something that is in the law, but the mere fact of his detention shows that we will never protect anyone who violates the law and even less if there is violence against women, if there is abuse, if there is violence against women. I mentioned at the beginning of this conference that not all prosecutors' offices are investigating in the same way. Currently, the typification and prosecution of the crime of femicides are not standardized in all entities of the country. How many states still have pending adjustments to harmonize their legislation with the national framework? And if you could mention what progress exists to promote that standardization. President, I don't know if you have the data. With your permission, President. Indeed, that is precisely why this general law is for preventing, investigating, sanctioning the crime of femicide. We know that there are still two attorney general's offices and the rest are general prosecutors' offices, and this law is precisely going to standardize the crime as such, including the penalties as we already mentioned, but that is precisely for that, to standardize throughout the country the general law that is called to prevent, investigate, sanction the crime of femicide, and that is precisely, as I repeat again, we have in all the attorney general's offices and prosecutors' offices to have the same protocol, which even later comes a law that also has a deadline to carry out a protocol. Under this protocol, the attorney general's offices and prosecutors' offices have to investigate. Taking advantage of the fact that you are here, is there or is there a calendar or strategy planned for the pending reforms to be approved as soon as possible to be able to promote what you are mentioning? We have a deadline, right, so that it can be... Yes. So that it can be... there is a deadline even now because it is in the period, precisely the signature, there is already a constitutional period, so once it enters that period, there is also... there is a deadline in which a protocol will have to be presented precisely on the general law to prevent, investigate, sanction the crime of femicide. Do you want to comment on the timelines? Yes. Well, the idea here is first we cannot establish a deadline for approval, but we hope and trust that the deputies, senators will do it in a short period once the session period begins. Right now we are in recess, the Congress of the Union resumes on September 1st. The discussion in committees can already be advanced, but the dictamination of this law would probably happen in September, given that it is a priority shared by the Congress of the Union and being a general law, then it will already be applicable. Precisely the question is linked to the motivation of this law, that is, as today all the federal entities are regulated differently, typified differently, with different penalties, different motivations, precisely it was mandated first in May to the Constitution to have a general law. What does this general law imply? It applies to all federal entities. That is, today as the general law establishes, it will already be applicable in all federal entities. That is why we had to obtain first the constitutional reform. So, as the criminal offense is already established, it is the criminal offense applicable to the 32 federal entities. The penalties established in this law are the ones applicable in all federal entities if this normativity is approved.
Ready. Let's see, Vilchis, who visits us today. Good morning, President. Back here my place. Oh, sorry, don't worry. Good morning, President. Good morning, colleagues. President, I want to touch on the topic of the National Well-being Survey that came out yesterday from INEGI. Satisfaction among Mexicans reached an average of 8.62, the highest level since 2021. However, it also shows differences according to educational level and marital status. How do you interpret these results and what policies do you consider have contributed to improving the well-being of the population while the government seeks to reduce these gaps? Let's see, put it on. It's very good, the truth, and it talks about the mood of Mexicans. Even though... it's a survey of... there are some who don't have such a good mood, right? But... let's see, lend me. Well, let's see. INEGI conducts a survey called the National Well-being Survey, self-reported. That is, how do you feel? At the time when they ask you about your well-being. In 2025, on a scale of 0 to 10, people were asked, the adult population, those over 18 years old or 18 and over in Mexico rated their satisfaction with their current life on average with 8.62, 8.62. In 2021 it was 8.45, that is, on a scale of 0 to 10, adult Mexicans say they are at a level of satisfaction with their life of 8.62 and their well-being. There is a survey that the UN does, what does the UN do? that the United Nations does on happiness and there we are, I don't remember what place we came out, but the interesting thing is that the countries above Mexico have a very low population compared to the 130, 34 million. The 2025 population count is coming out to know exactly how many Mexican women and men we are. But their population is very much below... There it is. Finland has 5 million inhabitants, Iceland 402,000, Denmark 6 million, Costa Rica 5, Sweden 10, Norway 5, Netherlands 18, Israel 9, Luxembourg 686,000, Switzerland 9 million, New Zealand 5,000 and Mexico 133 million. In this world happiness report we are, let's say, per capita by population the happiest population in the world and it coincides with the evaluation that INEGI makes. 8.62 is a very high level of satisfaction, of well-being. That is, people are happy, although some are not.
President, the fight against corruption has been one of the pillars on which the Fourth Transformation project was built. 8 years of government, first with former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and now with you at the head of the Presidency of the Republic. That fight continues under the principle of honesty with results that are also translated, even if they don't like it, into scholarships, pensions, social programs, strategic works, as well as progress in the fight against poverty and inequality that prevailed in the neoliberal period. All this was achieved with the elimination of privileges, the establishment of republican austerity as a public policy, the responsible use of the public budget and the prohibition of tax forgiveness to large taxpayers, among other things, which allowed recovering thousands of millions of pesos that previously remained in the hands of a few and that today are destined for the well-being of the people of Mexico. However, it is precisely them, the PRIAN, who from some cases seek to install the perception that everyone is the same. A narrative that is also amplified daily by certain commentary media and on social networks. In addition, opinion spaces aligned with the opposition. It must be said, all with the purpose of erasing the difference between a regime where corruption became a way of governing and a movement that was born precisely to combat it, such as the Fourth Transformation. My question is, President, do you consider that there is a campaign to erase that historical difference and install the perception that everyone is the same? And what would you answer to those who seek to discredit one of the main causes of the Fourth Transformation, when precisely the fight against corruption, republican austerity, the elimination of privileges and the end of tax forgiveness to large taxpayers has allowed transforming resources that previously only benefited a few into pensions and now benefit with scholarships, well-being, infrastructure. And this is to millions of Mexican women and men and does not remain in the hands of a few. How can it be explained that 14 million elderly adults, women and men have a bimonthly pension that in total, if we add all the bimonthly payments that the elderly receive and the number of elderly, represents more than 500,000 million pesos per year. 500,000 million pesos per year. Half a trillion pesos. Where does that resource come from? From what used to be corruption. There is no other explanation. Before there were not those programs, there was not the elderly pension. What there was was a very corrupt scheme of vote buying. Government programs were used to give them to those who coincided with a political position, with a political party. It was asked... hungry, right? What were all those programs called? Oportunidades and Solidaridad. Progresa. So it was, what political party do you belong to? Ah, well, to one different from the PRI. Ah, well, it's not for you. At election time. Who are you going to vote for? Ah, well, another political party. Ah, no, it's not for you. Do you want the support? You have to vote for the political party in power, which in reality was the PRIAN. Two political parties that during neoliberalism had no difference between one and another. So much so that in 2021 and 2024 they come out together in the election without any... nothing that veils that possibility of recognizing them as a single political party, a single vision of the country or a single project of the country. That's how it was before. For the young people who listen to us today, who have a scholarship, if they go to public high school, that scholarship did not exist before López Obrador arrived and there were scholarships linked to their political affinity or to their grade, which does not mean that they don't have to make a personal effort, all of them, but we built them as universal rights for all of them, to improve the condition of families and prevent young people from leaving school or the girls and boys. They are well-being programs linked to the rights of the people of Mexico. A completely different vision. That resource did not exist before. Today it is a trillion pesos. Where does that trillion pesos come from? Well, from acting against corruption and against privileges, that taxes are not forgiven and that we serve the people, because that is our role. We are governments of the people and we work for the people and by the people. That is the great difference between the past and the present. And we have to compare with what was done in the past, because it is also forgotten the neoliberal period, December 1982 to December 2018, 36 years, six six-year terms, Miguel de la Madrid, Salinas de Gortari, who arrives with an electoral fraud because it should have been the engineer Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas president. Zedillo, Fox, Calderón and Peña Nieto. Six six-year terms. During the six-year term of Miguel de la Madrid, the highest inflation in the history of the country. Salaries fall to very low levels because the salary does not increase with inflation and from there salaries stagnate. Now, remember that in 2018 the minimum wage was 2,800 pesos. The minimum wage today is more than 9,400, 154% higher in real terms. But that is not all. Let's remember Salinas de Gortari, who arrives with an electoral fraud, privatizes all the state companies that supposedly did not work due to corruption, but instead of solving the corruption of those state companies, what they do is privatize them, because that was the vision from outside and the vision of those technocrats who came to power at the time. Privatizes the state companies. When Salinas de Gortari arrives, there was only one family on the Forbes list of world multimillionaires. When Salinas de Gortari leaves, there are 40 families on the list of world multimillionaires. Who are they? Those to whom they were given, because really the state companies, the companies of the people of Mexico, were given to them. That happens in the period of Salinas. And then the period of Zedillo. And the period of Zedillo, ah, because with Salinas they sold us that we had already entered the first world, that Mexico was changing, that we were already part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, that we were entering the trade agreement. And what happens in 1994? A deep economic crisis, deep. Some called it the December error because they wanted to blame Zedillo and others said it was Salinas de Gortari's fault. The fact is that there is a devaluation of the peso and there is a tremendous increase in interest rates. And who is rescued? Those at the top, the banks that were state-owned and were privatized. The banks are rescued, entrepreneurs who did not even have debts, but due to corruption they were rescued. And the people at the bottom, who had bought a house with a 6% interest rate and suddenly it became 100% and they could not pay it, they had to give up their house. It is the period or one of the periods of greatest migration from Mexico to the United States. Well, the Fobaproa corruption is a scandal and it happened with Zedillo. And then comes Fox, who supposedly the change of democracy. Let's just talk about democracy, the desafuero of López Obrador, as López Obrador was on cloud nine for what he had done in Mexico City in 2003 for the well-being programs, they want to avoid at all costs that he reaches the Presidency of the Republic, that group really. And then, what do they do? A campaign and they also invent a crime to accuse him of having a crime which was the violation of an amparo. They desafuero him, only they did not count on the popular mobilization of millions of Mexican women and men throughout the country. They have to back down on the desafuero, but they commit the fraud...
[The] electoral of 2006. López Obrador should have been president in 2006. It is the legacy of Fox: the lack of democracy. And well, there was a lot of money at that time because a barrel of oil was at $100, 3.4 million barrels were exploited daily, and what do we remember from the Fox administration — major infrastructure works? And then Calderón, who also arrived through an electoral fraud, and invented the war against drug trafficking, leaving the country with almost three times the daily homicides of how he received it. And then Peña — let's not even talk about the corruption scandals, which are countless — until the people get fed up and say, 'We want a change.'
And the people live the change; they live it, they live better. If not, there would be no recognition of well-being. And why do they live better? Because public resources are returned to the people in public works and in well-being programs, in education and in health, unlike the past. That is the great change. Before, we governed for a few, for the benefit of a few, and now we govern for all, for all Mexicans — only for the good of all, the poorest first.
