Ecatepec reaffirms support for Claudia Sheinbaum and pledges to protect AMLO’s legacy

More than 5,000 people attended an assembly in Ecatepec where Mayor Azucena Cisneros Coss called for support for President Claudia Sheinbaum and the political project associated with former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Speaking at the Alfredo del Mazo sports centre in Jardines de Santa Clara, Cisneros said Ecatepec stood with Sheinbaum in defending national sovereignty, water, the dignity of Indigenous communities and Mexico's national identity. The assembly brought together residents of Federal District XIII and several Morena figures, including substitute Senator Sandra Luz Falcón Venegas, state party secretary general Adán Gordo Ramírez, Texcoco Mayor Nazario Gutiérrez Martínez and local lawmakers.

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President, you can count on the people of Ecatepec to defend transformation, national sovereignty, water, the dignity of our Indigenous communities and the greatness of Mexico.

Cisneros said the municipality was also committed to protecting the legacy of López Obrador and the Fourth Transformation. She linked that support to promises of more water, greater security, better streets, education, recovered public spaces, honesty and results.

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From Ecatepec, we unconditionally join the cause of our president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo; we also join in protecting the legacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the legacy of the Fourth Transformation.

The mayor pointed to water delivery in thousands of homes during the past year and a half. She said corrupt officials had turned the resource into a business for decades, and framed public access to water as a right rather than a privilege or handout.

She also described street paving, avenue improvements and park rehabilitation as part of defending sovereignty in public spaces. Cisneros said Mexico was being called on to defend sovereignty as conservative and reactionary forces sought to destroy popular will and remove rights. She presented the political moment as one led by women, naming Sheinbaum, Mexico State Governor Delfina Gómez Álvarez and historical figures including Josefa Ortiz Téllez Girón and Leona Vicario.

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That is sovereignty: returning to the people what has always been theirs. They are rights, not privileges or handouts.