Can't sell your presidential plane? Mexico mulls raffle instead

Unable to sell Mexico’s presidential Boeing 787 Dreamliner, President Lopez Obrador now wants to try and raffle it off

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday floated the idea of raffling off his predecessor’s $130 million jet after the government’s efforts to sell the plane over the past year came to nothing.

Seeking to paint his predecessors as part of an out-of-touch elite, Lopez Obrador has made a point of taking commercial flights, and has auctioned off many government planes and helicopters. “No, I don’t think so,” Jimenez Espriu said in a video published on social media by newspaper Reforma. “I think there are other more immediate .”

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