The Judiciary will decide whether to separate Minister Esquivel for plagiarism: AMLO

From the editorial

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday December 24, 2022, p. 7

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador considered that the allegations of alleged plagiarism against Minister Yasmín Esquivel Mossa have political purposesand remarked that it will have to be the Judiciary who determines if he should separate from office.

“We are going to wait, it is a matter of the Judiciary, of course for political purposes (…) That the competent authority carry out the investigation and that the lady clarify. But when you ask me for my point of view, I do not accept these (the group that accuses her) as judges, because I consider them part of the oligarchy.

– What to continue in office? –he was asked yesterday morning that it was held from this capital.

-That is decided by the Judiciary or the competent authority, because it would also be a summary judgment to give an opinion on that. There are authorities, but these (those who point it out) are fakers,” replied the president.

In recent days, a journalistic work was disseminated indicating that the minister – who aspires to preside over the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation – would have incurred in plagiarism in her degree work at the undergraduate level at the current FES Aragón of the UNAM.

Faced with this controversy, the head of the federal Executive added: In this case, I am not completely objective because I consider that any error, anomaly, committed by Minister Yasmín when she was a student, when she presented her degree thesis, is infinitely less than the damage that they have caused to Mexico (Enrique) Krauze and the man who makes the complaint, (Guillermo) Sheridan; Those have done a lot of damage to Mexico. That is why I say: I am not objective, because I maintain that this group was a participant in validating the looting that was committed in Mexico in the Neo-Porfirian period. Maybe I was wrong about the minister, but I prefer that to being right with these organic intellectual pimps of the conservative regime.

There are bites, but not tarascadas

On the other hand, the president reiterated that there is no corruption in his government, since it is dealt with from the top down, and although there are still bites, there are no more tarascades.

He pointed out that civil organizations created during the neoliberal period carried out exercises to measure corruption, but only among the population and not among the groups of political and economic power.

“They put 10, 20, 100 wallets in a public place, with 3,000, 4,000 pesos and a card (with the data) of the owner. If they did not return many wallets (they claimed) there was a lot of corruption. But when did they measure – and this also goes for the pimps and organic intellectual media – that the big business and financial corporations did not pay taxes? And we are talking about 10, 15, 20 billion pesos that they were forgiven”.

At the end of the conference, the Tabasco-queño wished all Mexicans a Merry Christmas. Later, the Presidency of the Republic released a statement in which it highlighted that from Monday, December 3, 2018 to yesterday, the president led 1,040 morning sessions, plus eight extraordinary ones.