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'It's a comfy plane': Mexico's Amlo seeks buyer for presidential jet
Leftist president-elect has promised to travel on commercial flights in push to rule with frugality and restraint
Tom Phillips in Mexico City
Mon 12 Nov 2018 11.58 EST
In less than three weeks he will be sworn in as president of the world’s sixth largest democracy.
First, however, Andrés Manuel López Obrador has an aircraft to shift.
“It’s not just an efficient, modern plane – it’s a comfy plane, with a bedroom, a restaurant, with lots of space,” Mexico’s incoming leader said of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner for which he is seeking a buyer.
Selling Mexico’s presidential jet was part of a package of populist pledges that López Obrador – or Amlo, as he is best known – made ahead of his landslide election victory in July.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/12/mexico-amlo-presidential-jet-sale
