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The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , asked Mexican citizens to vote in the public consultation on Sunday, August 1 in which they will ask If the former presidents of Mexico are to be investigated.
“I take this opportunity to invite people to participate, there will be this consultation in August , it is the first day of August, it is a Sunday, it is a question that can be translated in a very simple way: do you want it to be investigated and in accordance with the law it is judged to former presidents Carlos Salinas, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, yes or no? , but in essence it is that, “he said from Palacio National.
In his morning conference, the Mexican president stated the reasons why his predecessors who were within the neoliberal period should be judged.
In the case of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988 – 1988) , argued that “he handed over all the goods of the nation and the people of Mexico to his relatives , it’s that simple. ”
About Ernesto Zedillo (1994 – 2000) pointed out that with the FOBAPROA (Bank Savings Protection Fund) “it converted the private debts of a few into public debt and we carried 30 or 40 years paying that debt ” .
In the case of Vicente Fox (1994 – 2006) said that “he deceived the people, because with the efforts of many he became president and became a traitor to democracy. He has confessed that he loaded the dice in the election of 2006 to impose Felipe Calderón, it is an attack on democracy. ”
About Felipe Calderón (2006 – 2012) mentioned that he “unleashed, declared the war on crime without addressing the causes and massacres were carried out, there were instructions to finish off the wounded and there are the data, the levels of lethality in confrontations, two years of Calderón in confrontations, more dead than injured or detained. Add that the one who was Secretary of Public Security (Genaro García Luna) is in jail in the United States, he turned the country into a cemetery. ”
And with respect to Enrique Peña Nieto (2012 – 2018) , mentioned that he would be prosecuted “for the obvious acts of corruption, there is as a protected witness the that he was as director of Pemex (Emilio Lozoya), declaring that by superior orders, to approve the so-called structural reforms, especially the energy reform, money was given to legislators of the parties that are now in the opposition. ”
Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated that “there is matter that caused the ruin of the country” and that Mexico lost its possibility of development in the last 30 years, what he calls the neoliberal period.
“I already fixed my position since I took office, I said full stop, let’s go forward. I am not going to participate in the consultation nor am I going to vote for the presidents to be tried, but I do not want to go down in history as a cover, as a pimp, there is that everyone makes their point of view known, freely “, he declared.
The statements of the Mexican president arise after the publication last week in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) of the law to carry out the consultation on August 1, 2021 , with a diffusion period from the day 15 July 2021.
The Tabasco president also criticized the National Electoral Institute (INE) , who had refused to organize the consultation, with an estimate of 890 million pesos (about 44. 5 million dollars) on the grounds that there was no budget.
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