• Mexico López Obrador and the diplomacy 'of walking around the house'

Mexican President

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

defended this Sunday the election of

Quirino Ordaz Coppel

as the

new ambassador to Spain

and recognized that

relations with Madrid are not "as good as we would like

.

"

"We asked the monarchy (to) apologize, but they felt offended,"

López Obrador explained during an event at the Picachos dam, near Mazatlán, on the Sinaloa coast.

With Spain "we have good relations, sometimes not as we would like, with misunderstandings, but

I aspire to fully reestablish good relations with Spain, because I am an admirer of the Spanish people

, a working people, honest, progressive, a people that I respect a lot, "he added.

This restoration must be done "based on mutual respect."

"That the neoliberal governments do not see us as they acted, because they allowed them.

That they do not see us as a land of conquest,

" he pointed out.

"We are going to comply with the entire procedure. We must request the approval of the government of Spain" for the new ambassador and then ask the Mexican Senate to ratify it, he explained.

Ordaz is the outgoing governor of the state of Sinaloa for the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

On October 31, Rubén Rocha, of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), will leave office. "Quirino has done a good job in this state. He has had good coordination with the federal government, with the government he leads and will represent us , I consider, in a dignified way in Spain, "he said.

REPLACEMENT OF THE AMBASSADOR BY RETIREMENT

López Obrador has stressed that

a "new stage" is opening in relations with Madrid

. "I think it is appropriate for this change to take place. The ambassador (

María Carmen Oñate Muñoz

) is an extraordinary woman. She was consul in Barcelona, ​​she became the ambassador of Mexico in Spain. She is about to retire (...) Ambassador Oñate is top notch, "he added.

For its part, the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

has thanked the work and performance of Ambassador Oñate Muñoz at the head of the Mexican Embassy in Madrid.

"Ambassador

Oñate had communicated her decision to retire for months, so this Foreign Ministry expresses its recognition of her outstanding

42-year

career

in the diplomatic service and extends its best wishes for the future," the statement said.

The change comes after the cultural attaché of the Mexican Embassy in Spain, Jorge F. Hernández, was dismissed in August by the head of cultural diplomacy, Enrique Márquez, who resigned after a few days.

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