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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO responded to those who question the results of the June 2 elections with an article by economist Gerardo Esquive, who wrote that "while in 12 years of opposition coalition governments, the number of poor people rose at a rate of 100,000 per month, in the first four years of this administration, poverty declined by 100,000 people per month. After knowing this, do you still find the election results illogical or hard to explain? Will you continue to denounce the voters for their decision?"; Minister of the Interior Luisa María Alcalde explained that the results of the June 2 elections determine that the Morena-PT-PVEM coalition is entitled to 373 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, which means a qualified majority that will allow it to make changes to the Constitution; despite the numerous attempts at disinformation, AMLO highlighted that the people of Mexico have demonstrated that there is no media power that can place itself above the will of the people; it is not true that there was a 123% increase in fuel theft in the first five years of López Obrador's administration, compared to the same period of Peña Nieto's government. What is known as huachicol has decreased 94.2% since 2019, which means savings of more than US$19 billion; it is false that Mexico is in third place worldwide in youth unemployment. According to the OECD, Mexico is the third place for the lowest youth unemployment at 5.2%, only behind Germany and Japan.

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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO called on the two U.S. presidential candidates to sign a commitment to regulate the sale of weapons in their country, as it would address the underlying problem and Mexico would also benefit in seeing a reduction in the illegal trafficking of weapons that fall into the hands of organized crime; the President made it clear that the Mexican Government was not involved in the early release in the United States of former Tamaulipas Governor Tomás Yarrington; the head of the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris), Alejandro Svarch, exposed a corruption network that tried to establish an artificial monopoly in the testing of medicines, particularly generic pharmaceuticals; the IMSS Bienestar program has 515 second-level hospitals and 50 third-level hospitals, in which health-care is guaranteed with specialized medical personnel. The La Clínica es Nuestra program is 98.6% completed in terms of the delivery of funds to improve the infrastructure of 11,808 health-care centers located in 27 states.