Andrés Manuel López Obrador claims himself as leader of the masses in a march in Mexico

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The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has led a massive demonstration in Mexico City this Sunday

.

More than a protest, it is being a "festive act" called to respond to the massive march that, two weeks earlier, the opposition led in rejection of the government's electoral reform.

For a few hours, the country's highest authority left the National Palace and put on his activist boots again to march again, as he did so many times as a candidate, and demonstrate that

they continue to be the patrimony of his political movement, despite the fact that for this he has had to resort to government publicity and the immense resources of the apparatus of the ruling Morena party.

"I invite all the people, all those who can attend because it is a historical event," said the president on the eve of the mobilization, which he anticipated would be massive.

Early in the morning, his followers met at the Angel of Independence monument, in the heart of Paseo de la Reforma, the main artery of the financial area, to travel the four kilometers that separated them from the Zócalo, the historic and nerve center from the Mexican capital.

In the front row of the demonstration, along with López Obrador,

: the mayoress of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, the Foreign Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Secretary of the Interior, Gustavo Adán.

The event will culminate with the presentation of the

of López Obrador, the rendering of accounts that the president usually performs from time to time.

Aerial view of the march led by AMLO.AFP

Protesters 'carried away'

On the eve of the meeting, several opposition leaders denounced that Morena was resorting to

, a term used in Mexico to refer to the mobilization of people, through incentives, to participate in political acts.

At first, AMLO was offended and promised that there would be no

;

two days later he responded with irony: "There are millions of people who are going to come, they

."

In his attempt to tarnish the opposition march on November 13, in which 12,000 people participated, according to the Government, and 150,000, according to the organizers, AMLO invited "all the people of Mexico" to attend his "democracy party ".

In this race to nurture the march of protesters, AMLO's party has brought out all its electoral machinery.

On November 16, the president announced the march by surprise and at the end of that week, posters with the face of López Obrador calling to celebrate "the 4 years of Transformation" could already be seen on the subway and the streets of the capital. ".

Last Thursday, the director of the Metro Collective Transport System, Guillermo Calderón,

, since the Constitution establishes that the image of the president can only be displayed during the duration of the "Government report".

Morena will also take advantage of its enormous territorial control, it controls 21 of the 32 states, to bring supporters from all corners of the country by bus.

In their attempt to please the

, the governors opened a competition to see who could get the most.

The mayor of the capital and presidential candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, promised to summon "more than 100,000

."

López Obrador has slipped that

.

With 21 months to go before he leaves office, the president still has many pending challenges.

His party, however, will no longer be more united than today: the battle for the succession has begun, the candidates are already sharpening their knives and AMLO's shadow is too long.

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