President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned that those who campaign against the transformation project could even be accused of treason.
At a morning press conference yesterday, the Mexican president stressed that all those with income coming directly or indirectly from public resources must be transparent. Likewise, he questioned the income of Mexicans against Corruption, an organization that in recent days presented an investigation into a possible conflict of interest between his son Ramón López Beltrán and the Baker Hughes company, which has contracts with Pemex.
“I ask them: Isn’t it corruption to receive money from the United States government to do undermining work against the transformation project? It is even treason against the country, but why don’t they say how much they receive?
And he added: “What I am making known has to do with public money. There is Latinus that has to do with the medicine business, why do those who sold medicines to the governments no longer sell them and who are they? Politicians from the old regime, linked to these journalists.”
“So, we are seeing this (…) It is interesting what is happening and he who owes nothing fears nothing (…) The campaign against us comes from above,” he added.
Confrontation in the Upper House
With the installation, at the foot of the platform, of a buildable photograph almost four meters long and two meters wide of the famous “gray house”, with a pool and everything, the PAN senators expressed their disagreement.
But they had to withdraw it because that was the condition so that, outside the agenda and by agreement of the coordinators of the parliamentary groups of all the political forces represented in the upper house, one of the many points of agreement promoted was debated in the plenary session. by the PAN members in relation to the issue of the house in Houston, which José Ramón López Beltrán, eldest son of the President of the Republic, and his wife rented.
When the debate on the scandalous issue had already begun at noon, the president of the Board of Directors, Olga Sánchez Cordero, had to decree a recess due to the disorder and shouting in the room so that the parliamentary coordinators could solve the problem. .
Almost five hours later, the already agreed debate began, but with the “grey house” dismantled.
“We are going to do it to one side. You have to give up something, ”PAN senator Xóchitl Gálvez justified as she passed by, questioned about how the PAN would proceed.
“They are corrupt and inefficient and it is necessary for the people of Mexico to know, if there is a clear and objective investigation, if indeed, as we assure it, there is influence peddling and bribery,” said his co-religionist Kenia López when proposing to approve that the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Ministry of Public Administration (SFP) “investigate the president’s family.”
Immediately after, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, coordinator of the Morena bench, clarified that his people do not shy away from the debate.
“Morena signed this agreement with the parliamentary groups, (to) open the debate (…) We are going to defeat all the intrigues, all the slander and all this perversity that will end up in the dump. I also want to express forcefully, I respect all the media.”
After eight speakers spoke in favor and eight against the proposed point of agreement, the board was opened for a vote; the proposal was rejected by 42 votes in favor, 62 against and zero abstentions.
Revira NGO
“It violates our right to freedom of expression”
The civil organization Mexicans against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) responded in a statement to the statements of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which he called unacceptable and unfounded.
And it is that the president labeled those who have criticized what he calls the Fourth Transformation, as “traitors to the country.”
“Calling someone a traitor to the country is a very serious accusation, it is the indication of a crime and when it is false, it is an unacceptable slander. Mexicans against Corruption and Impunity categorically rejects such an indication by the President of the Republic”, stated the NGO.
He added that the Federal Penal Code clearly exposes, in its article 123, those who commit treason against the country and “we are not and have never been in those assumptions.”
“From the National Palace, the president of Mexico accuses us, without foundation, once again. We do not do ‘undermining work’ against his government project. We do not work in a hidden way. What we do is document the causes, costs and consequences of corruption, whoever it is and whoever it bothers, in order to eradicate it, ”he indicated.
MCCI affirmed that to operate it receives financing from national and foreign sources under the framework of the law.
The NGO concluded in the press release entitled “We reject slander”, that “the president violates our right to freedom of expression, enshrined in the American Convention on Human Rights, by attacking us without any legal basis. He forgets that his State’s responsibility is to ensure a security context to exercise independent journalism.
“Working for the country and not betraying it implies conducting oneself within the framework of the law, and entails strengthening and not destroying the essential pillars and values for a free, plural and democratic coexistence. That is our commitment.”
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