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 Business News | August 2005 
López Obrador Outlines Economic Ideology
 Wire services
| | Mexico's leftist presidential front-runner, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will be neither a spendthrift populist nor a Wall Street puppet if elected next July, a senior aide told Reuters. |
Former Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leading candidate in polls on the 2006 presidential race, claimed he is a leftist at heart but called for a "non-ideological" economic policy.
Just days after he was harshly criticized by Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, López Obrador said he respects the rebel leader, and won't get into any arguments with him or respond to the criticisms.
"The economy doesn't have anything to do with ideological burdens," López Obrador said in an interview with the Televisa television network. "I'm in favor of a technical, non-ideological handling of the economy."
Still, López Obrador said he had been misinterpreted in earlier articles that suggested he had turned to the center. "I am a leftist, because I'm a humanist," he said.
López Obrador spoke on the day before the launch of what he said will be a barnstorming campaign across northern Mexico where his support is weak to build his presidential candidacy. That tour will take him to the border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali.
Running almost unopposed for the nomination of his leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), López Obrador said that, if elected, he would select his cabinet officers from across the political spectrum, "without regard to party affiliation."
Over the weekend, Marcos in his first public appearance in four years suggested López Obrador had betrayed the Indian rights movement and predicted he would "sink us all" if elected.
On Tuesday, Marcos again lashed out in a statement against the PRD, calling its leaders "shameless rogues."
But López Obrador refused to rise to Marcos' challenge, saying simply "I respect his opinion." |
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