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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO welcomed the renewal of Morena's National Executive Committee and said he was very pleased with those elected to the party’s top leadership, with Luisa María Alcalde as president, Carolina Rangel as the new general secretary, and Andrés López Beltrán as Secretary of Organization. In this context, he reiterated his resignation from the party as he will be withdrawing from public activity when his term ends; following the attack he was the victim of yesterday in Veracruz, when an employee of the judicial branch threw a bottle of water at him, the Mexican President said that there will be no action taken against the aggressor but asked for respect towards those who participate in the country’s transformation; the President said that the Supreme Court should declare the two cases related to tax evasion committed by business magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego to be outside its jurisdiction given that both have already passed through the courts and do not involve issues of constitutionality.”

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO recalled that during his administration nearly 10 million people have been lifted out of poverty, thanks to the new economic policy based on a humanist outlook and priority attention to the most vulnerable sectors of the population; the President pointed out that the approval of the constitutional reform on indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples is a historic development, since the rights of native peoples will be legally recognized. He was confident that the bill will be easily passed by the Senate, following its unanimous approval by the Chamber of Deputies. He said that the incoming Claudia Sheinbaum administration will not allow the reform to remain a dead letter and will put it into practice; the results of the National Statistics Institute’s latest survey on “Social perception of authorities' performance” show high levels of popular support for government institutions.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO welcomed the unanimous vote of congressional deputies of all the political parties to approve the constitutional reform he presented regarding indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples. The reform recognizes them as subjects of public law, which provides these communities with greater legal rights and autonomy and enables them to receive and execute budgets, in addition to being consulted in cases of projects that impact their locality or way of life; President López Obrador reiterated that the Judicial Reform will allow for important advances in the administration of justice in favor of minorities, as the influence of oligarchies over judges, justices, and magistrates will be eradicated; the President regretted that the U.S. government has not heeded Mexico's proposal to face the migration problem by addressing the causes that lead to migrants abandoning their countries of origin; today is the anniversary of both the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes. The results of the National Reconstruction Program for the 2017 earthquakes were reported.

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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO denounced Ernesto Zedillo, who left his circle of intellectuals and abandoned his activism on the international stage to criticize the Judicial Reform here in Mexico, arguing that the former president “has no moral authority to talk about democracy.”; after Felipe Calderón's former Minister of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, published a letter accusing President López Obrador of links with drug trafficking, the Mexican President responded, declaring that if the ex-official imprisoned in the United States has proof, videos, or phone calls, he should make them public; the President denounced a sensationalist campaign over violence in Sinaloa promoted by opponents of the government aimed at inducing fear in the population; it is not true that the peso would be devalued if the Judicial Reform were approved. The peso continues to be the most appreciated currencies in relation to the dollar worldwide. López Obrador's government will be the first in 50 years not to devalue the peso.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO described as “laughable” the statements made by former president Ernesto Zedillo, who said yesterday that the Judicial Reform buries democracy; in response to possible legal challenges against the Judicial Reform, President López Obrador explained that there is no legal basis to prevent the reform and that not even the Supreme Court could stop it; the Mexican government is addressing the situation of violence in Sinaloa on two levels: protecting the population and preventing confrontations between criminal groups; actions in security matters during López Obrador's administration include: attention to the causes of public insecurity with social programs; weapons exchange programs; the creation of the National Guard; apprehension of 94,240 lawbreakers, of whom 8,509 were priority targets: seizure of chemical substances and drugs and destruction of 2,593 clandestine laboratories.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO charged that the opposition, using lies, has tried to sow fear with arguments of a peso devaluation and capital flight if the Judicial Reform was approved; President López Obrador said that the violence in Sinaloa is being responded to with the mobilization of the Armed Forces to protect the population and avoid confrontations. He clarified that there is no escalation of a cartel war in Culiacán, so he called on people to not be alarmed; the President indicated that the Ministry of National Defense is building five hospitals in Puebla, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Yucatán, which will be inaugurated in December by Claudia Sheinbaum. Six hospitals built by the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) will also remain to be inaugurated; the Ministry of Well-Being will propose to President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum that the pension/stipend for senior citizens living abroad be provided outside of Mexico, given that currently, due to operating rules, it can only be paid within the country.