Obrador speaks with Trump and proposes a plan to reduce migration
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With a majority in Congress and elected with over 53% of votes, Obrador met with Trump on immigration, trade, and security issues
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Obrador badumes the presidency on December 1 and he announced that he will be touring municipalities before taking office, which will help his team design what he calls the "Nation Project" (Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters)
Mexico City – Andrés Manuel López Obrador had a Sunday night (1) triumphant: he was elected president of Mexico his party won four of the eight elections for governor, made the mayor of the capital and got a majority in Congress. On Monday, he adopted a conciliatory tone on two important fronts: he rebadured the markets and broke the ice with US President Donald Trump. During a telephone conversation, they discussed the reduction of security and immigration
Donald Trump called me and we talked for half an hour. I proposed to explore a global agreement; development projects that create jobs in Mexico, and thereby reduce migration and improve security.
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) July 2, 2018
Trump and Obrador spoke of immigration, trade and security. "I received a call from Trump and we talked for half an hour.I asked you to discuss a comprehensive agreement and development projects that create jobs in Mexico.With this we can reduce immigration and improve security, "wrote Obrador on Twitter
The US president also commented on the dialogue. "I think our relationship will be very good and I think it will help us at the border," Trump said in a statement to the White House. "We had a great discussion, about half an hour, and we talked about border security, trade and NAFTA, with the possibility of a separate agreement between Mexico and the states. Only.
This was the first of many conversations. Obrador's tenure is six years. Trump will seek to be re-elected in 2020, which would allow him to occupy the White House until 2024. Mexico has a strong commercial dependence on the United States – 80% of its exports pbad through the US border. But Obrador has some weapons, mainly immigration and drug trafficking, problems that require bilateral cooperation.
Another Obrador force in negotiations with the United States is in China. According to Luis Oganes, JP Morgan's chief economic researcher for Latin America, Mexico is investing 2.6% of GDP in infrastructure, but Obrador has promised to increase it to 5%. "China is very interested in investing in Mexican projects," said Oganes, who believes in increasing trade between the two countries.
Reconciliation
The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, also made available to Obrador his ministerial team for an "orderly and efficient" transition. The two will meet on Tuesday at the National Palace to discuss one of the most controversial issues of the campaign: the suspension of the construction of the Mexico City International Airport, which will cost $ 13 billion.
Presidency only on 1 December. Until then, he announced that he will be touring municipalities, which will help his team develop what he calls a "nation project" – a kind of refoundation of the country.
According to the first results released by the National Electoral Institute, to get 53% of the vote – a vote that the Mexicans had not seen since the time when the PRI fought the elections. The projections also indicate that he will have the majority in Congress.
Among the eight elections, his party, the National Movement for Regeneration (Morena), won four elections – Veracruz, Morelos, Tabasco and Chiapas – and also elected Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to be elected Mexico City