Mexico City, (EFE) .- The former president of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004-2011), said yesterday that there is no one in the world with the popularity rates of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
“There is no one in the world with these popular indices, which denies the theory that we are at a time where distrust of the rulers is generated (…) there are rulers that generate great confidence such as the president of Mexico, I do not remember those approval rates after a few months,” he said.
The former president participated in a seminar organized by the University Government Program and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, both of the UNAM, where he also said about the current tension between the United States and China.
Rodríguez Zapatero met with Chancellor Juan Ramón de la Fuente to talk about the current geopolitical context.
“They exchanged opinions about the world geopolitical context and the challenges facing the international community, both in Europe and in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said Thursday.
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To the meeting, which occurred at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry in Mexico City, the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, María Teresa Mercado and the Ambassador of Spain in Mexico, Juan Duarte Cuadrado, also attended.
The SRE gave details of the appointment and recalled that Rodríguez Zapatero “is in Mexico to participate in academic activities.”
Eight out of 10 Mexicans, 81%, approve the management of Sheinbaum, seven months after the start of his mandate, on October 1, 2024, the monthly survey of the newspaper El Financiero published on May 5 revealed.
This level of approval of March is two points less than March, when it reached 83%, and moves away from the highest acceptance it reached in February, when it obtained 85%, the highest record in the last 30 years in this study.
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Since December, Sheinbaum said he will insist that Spain requested forgiveness for the abuses of the conquest in 2025, when the 700 years of the Tenochtitlán Foundation will be commemorated.
Sheinbaum, who caused controversy for not inviting King Felipe VI to his investiture on October 1, said that he will maintain this request during his six years of mandate, the same requirement that the then President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began.
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