MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico’s president-elect is pushing back at criticism over the lavish wedding of one of his closest advisers.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the wedding was not a government event but rather a private, social one.
Cesar Yanez has worked with Lopez Obrador for more than 20 years. His wedding to Dulce Silva, from a wealthy business family, recently landed on the cover of society magazine Hola! Lopez Obrador also attended and his photograph made the magazine.
The criticism came because the famously ascetic president-elect has prescribed a policy of government austerity for Mexico after he takes office Dec. 1.
Lopez Obrador said Thursday that his opponents “are looking for any possible mistake to criticize us.”
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