Sheinbaum promises to lift 7.5 million Mexicans out of extreme poverty in six years

MEXICO CITY (apro).- If she wins the presidential elections, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, presidential candidate of Morena-PT-PVEM, promised to lift 7.5 million Mexicans out of extreme poverty in six years; that is, by 2030.

During the presentation of her government axis “Social rights, well-being and reduction of inequality” from Tuxpan, Veracruz, the Morenista explained that she will achieve this goal by giving continuity to social programs installed in the current government, plus others that she will create and that They have been the flag of his electoral campaign.

Among them, he mentioned monthly support for women aged 60 to 64 with half of the pension for older adults, the universal scholarship for public school students, from preschool to secondary school; the creation of the national care system with priority attention to maquila workers, agricultural laborers and those employed in fishing, the increase in the minimum wage and the guarantee of social security.

“We are talking about a combined action, from access to education, access to health, access to housing and also the social programs that we are proposing that will be converted into rights, because they are universal, and the economic development of the country itself. The idea is that there is no extreme poverty in our country and if not reduce it substantively (…) We are talking about 7.5 million people,” he explained.

The Morenista included these actions in what she called ”National Strategy so that There is No Extreme Poverty” in the country.

“Our perspective is completely different from the neoliberal model, our objective is to continue building social rights and the protection of human rights, of women, of men, of young people, of older adults,” he stated.