▲ Former Governor of Veracruz Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, yesterday during the Senate session.
From the Editorial Staff
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, p. 4
The Yunes family, which has been a protagonist in Veracruz politics for decades, has been active in both the PRI and the PAN, while dozens of legal accusations have emerged against different members of that clan.
In the case of Senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, who yesterday requested leave from his position hours before the beginning of the discussion of the reform of the Judicial Branch, he arrived at his seat after a process that has lasted three years, accused of falsifying documents to seek to run for mayor of Veracruz in 2021, despite the fact that three years earlier he was still mayor of Boca del Río.
His father and former governor of the state, Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, who assumed his place in the Senate as his alternate legislator, has also faced accusations and investigations for alleged illicit enrichment, while his two brothers, Fernando and Omar Yunes Márquez, have been accused of alleged irregularities, which they have repeatedly denied having committed.
Despite having obtained a senate seat after the last elections on June 2, the Veracruz prosecutor’s office maintained a case against Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, for the alleged falsification of documents to prove his residency, and to be able to be a candidate for the mayoralty of Veracruz.
In the second week of July, a judge issued an arrest warrant for the crimes of procedural fraud and document forgery. After that, on July 18, the ninth district court in amparo matters granted him a provisional suspension that temporarily halts the execution of that order, which allowed him to be sworn in as senator for six years, during which time he will have immunity.
Before running for mayor of Veracruz with the intention of being Fernando’s successor, his brother, Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, ran for governor, but lost to Morena’s Cuitláhuac García.
