The first time EPN didn't answer AMLO's phone

Concerned about the defeat that Morena suffered in the Chamber of Deputies, on Sunday night, April 17, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would have tried to call his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto, but the Mexican citizen could not be reached or did not want to take the communication, columnist Alejandro Aguirre said Thursday Warrior.

The failure of the electric reform in the face of a cohesive opposition coupled with the results of the mobilization of voters on the day of revocation of the mandate, would have diminished the mood of the Tabasqueño to the extent that he was worried about the presidential succession, said the columnist of El Universal.

The reason for the telephone call from Palacio Nacional would have been to ensure that there is no risk of any video showing a character belonging to the circle close to López Obrador and consequently damaging the image of the current Federal Executive.

Regarding the possible existence of these recordings, some political analysts assume that they would be in the possession of Peña Nieto and that his protection has ensured his tranquility while he remains in exile in Spain, avoiding any opinion on political life in Mexico.

According to the text by Aguirre Guerrero, AMLO followed from Palacio Nacional the debate and voting on its constitutional reform initiative on electricity matters in San Lázaro, and concerned he noted that his party lost much of the power exhibited in the first three years of the six-year period, a period where almost thirty years could pass of reforms without the other parties showing great resistance.

On October 25, 2021, during the morning conference, a reporter asked López Obrador to issue a position after Enrique Peña Nieto was caught in Rome while walking with his girlfriend, Tania Ruiz, thereby provoking the president's gesture of displeasure, who merely said: “I don't get into it.”

An unofficial version widespread among political analysts is that the Tabasqueño and Mexiquense maintain a political non-aggression pact and pointed out that just a few months ago the Attorney General's Office (FGR) confirmed that there is no open investigation against the former president.

In his daily conferences, López Obrador has avoided talking directly about his predecessor and in 2021, when the public consultation on impeachment against the last five former presidents of Mexico was held, the Tabasqueño publicly said that he was inclined not to prosecute his predecessors in court.

The image of Pío Lorenzo López Obrador, brother of the federal president, receiving large sums of cash from David León, former federal Civil Protection coordinator, spread through two videos dealt a serious blow to the anti-corruption and honesty discourse that the government presumes every morning at conferences mornings.

Later came that video scandal in which he showed Alejandro Esquer Verdugo, now private secretary of President López Obrador, depositing large amounts of cash into a bank account, arousing criticism because the money in the hands of Morena's operators allegedly came from a trust by the earthquake of 2017 in Mexico.

However, journalist and columnist Raymundo Riva Palacio pointed out that there could be other recordings and a latent risk of their publication, and stressed that in them the children of AMLO can be identified in situations that could call into question the fight against corruption of the Fourth Transformation.

Riva Palacio commented that the Palacio Nacional has sought the owner or owners of these videos to neutralize them definitively, and free the president from another concern.

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