The future Mexican president will invite Donald Trump to his inauguration

They show good will. Mexico's President-elect Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Thursday that he intended to invite Donald Trump to his inauguration on Dec. 1, as relations have been tense since the US president's election campaign two years ago.

"We are going to invite him, we are neighbors, we have economic relations, trade, friendship, cooperation. We have 3,180 km of border (commune). So, President Trump will be invited, "said Lopez Obrador during a press briefing. Whether or not the American president comes, "it will depend on his agenda and what he decides," said Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, 64.

"AMLO", as is commonly known as the future strongman of Mexico, got an overwhelming electoral victory Sunday, garnering more than 53% of the vote. The party of the leftist candidate wins a grand slam: parliamentary, senatorial and local elections.

"Good discussion" telephone

Many unknowns surround him however, one of the main being the link he will maintain with the United States, Mexico's largest trading partner and home to 12 million Mexicans. In recent months, relations between the two nations have been particularly chaotic, between Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and trade tensions.

Despite AMLO's commitment to put Trump back "in his place," the two men Monday, the day after the election, their intention to develop a good mutual relationship. Lopez Obrador proposed to his US counterpart to "reduce migration" and "improve security", rump greeting for his part a "good discussion" telephone. "I think he'll try to help us on the border," said the White House tenant, who promised to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.