Adán Augusto's plan to become AMLO's presidential candidate, according to Carlos Loret de Mola

Adán Augusto, the secretary of government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would have up his sleeve a strategy to reach as a candidate, or at least as an emerging hitter to the presidential elections of 2024, sheltered by its chief.

The plan of the former governor of Tabasco was revealed by journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, who pointed to an alliance between César Yáñez and Secretary Augusto; the first, one of AMLO's great companions since time immemorial, and who was allegedly “frozen” by his eccentric wedding, alien to AMLO's republican austerity, his replacement: Jesus Ramirez Cuevas.

In this context, the columnist pointed out in his most recent text for El Universal that the strategy is to take away power from Ramírez Cuevas, who seek to “make it clear that López Obrador has lost control of the agenda and is isolated.”

The other part of his presidential stroke is the approach that the Minister of the Interior has had with businessmen, politicians and journalists thanks to Yáñez, which Loret de Mola even labeled as a kind of advanced campaign coordination by the official.

In this regard, the journalist reported that although Claudia Sheinbaum, the head of government of Mexico City is the best positioned and favorite of AMLO, who “is in the spirit of President is Adam Augusto”, because “while she generates problems for him, he solves them”.

“With close proximity to the president (...) building bridges that AMLO had broken and with a powerful “Tabasco group” embedded in key positions in the federal government, Adán Augusto is putting together his plan to be a presidential candidate,” concluded Carlos Loret de Mola.

Adam Augustus' political career is long. He entered the public service, as part of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), in the major leagues as a deputy of the Tabasco Congress in 2007 and until 2009, when he joined the Congress of the Union as a federal deputy for District 4 of Tabasco.

The logical step was to enter the Senate of the Republic through Tabasco in 2012, where he joined as a militant the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), founded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from whom he became unconditional.

In 2019, supported by the Morenoites, he went to the government of Tabasco and won it democratically, only one year after AMLO won the presidential elections during its third attempt.

However, Adán Augusto left the post in August 2021, when he was called by Andrés Manuel to replace Olga Sánchez Cordero in the Ministry of the Interior, and who left for the presidency of the Senate of the Republic.

The Paraíso, Tabasco-born, a law graduate from the Universidad Juárez Autónoma del Estado, actually took his first steps in politics as president of the Local Council of Conciliation and Arbitration, and was later appointed as Undersecretary for Political Development and Civil Protection of the Government of the State of Tabasco.

Other positions he held during the 1990s include that of Undersecretary of Government and Legal Affairs, and since 1994 he was notary titular of Notary Office No. 27, in the city of Villahermosa, Tabasco.

His academic experience also includes studies in comparative law at the Institute of Comparative Law in Paris, a master's degree in Political Science from the Sorbonne University New-Paris, and a diploma in Notarial Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

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