Spent on answering the questions directly with real data back at the National Palace reporters are still competing for the president s attention here everyone from internet bloggers to Celebrity News anchors have an equal chance of getting called off work at 2. This is good because you have the opportunity to the bait and get clarity on the president s positions on the other hand the press conference has in some ways centralized the federal governments hold over information and some critics have referred to the money in it as a populist strategy comparing lopez over to donald trump in the way he steers the daily news agenda were in the National Palace in mexico city and todays press conference has just ended whats remarkable apart from the fact that the president leads these question and answer sessions nearly every single day is that this practice was previously unheard of in mexican president ial politics right in the sense longwinded as it may be many in mexico see lemonade as a pos