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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will meet this afternoon with his successor Claudia Sheinbaum to begin work on details on the transition to the new administration; The final ballot count from the June 2 elections is in. Claudia Sheinbaum was elected President with 59.75% of the votes. The Morena, PT, and PVEM coalition won seven gubernatorial races; Movimiento Ciudadano one. and the PAN, PRI AND PRD coalition, one; the President questioned the expenses made by the opposition in its dirty campaign against his administration and the then presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum; after indicating that the migratory flows in the country are not out of control, AMLO announced that Mexico has proposed two projects to address the root causes of migration: extending the Mayan Train from Chetumal in Mexico to Belize and from Belize to Flores, Guatemala, which would involve providing work to approximately 100,000 people, and constructing a train line from Tapachula, Chiapas to Guatemala, which would create 50,000 jobs.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO said that the national economy is very solid, noting that the peso is the strongest currency in the world. He attributed movements in the peso exchange rate to jitters over the judicial branch reform; the President mentioned that he sent Congress a package of 20 reforms to, among others points, guarantee senior citizens 65 years of age and older the right to a pension, as well as full, free, and quality medical care for all. He said that this package will be promoted in coordination with virtual president Claudia Sheinbaum; according to Tax Administration System data, fiscal revenue from January to June totaled almost 2.14 trillion, 5.5% higher in real terms than the same period last year.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: In response to those questioning the results of the June 2 elections, AMLO charged that they don’t want to accept the country’s new reality, the changes in the population political awareness; according to the latest tally of Sunday’s elections, Claudia Sheinbaum's victory was reaffirmed with her receiving 59.76% of the vote; the President ruled out closing the border with the United States, since it is a factor for economic, commercial, and social integration and doing so would have a serious effect on the economies of both countries; on the 15th anniversary of the ABC Day Care Center tragedy, AMLO explained that it occurred due to the privatization of the day care centers. In the current government, another mechanism of support for the care of minors was created, without intermediaries. Since 2019, the victims and families of the ABC Day Care Center fire have been receiving support such as scholarships, medical care, and life pensions.