On November 20, 2018, President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke about the corruption of earlier governments. He proposed a “punto final, que se acabe la historia trágica, horrenda, de corrupción, de impunidad” (full stop, so that the tragic, horrendous history of corruption and impunity ends). The newspaper Vanguardia ran the headline “Ofrece AMLO borrón y cuenta nueva contra la corrupción” (AMLO offers a clean slate on corruption).
In his inaugural speech on December 1, he said: “Esta nueva etapa la iniciaremos sin perseguir a nadie, porque no apostamos al circo y la simulación” (We will begin this new stage without persecuting anyone, because we are not betting on circus and pretense).