Georgina Saldierna
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 18, 2024, p. 4
The leader of the National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés Mendoza, demanded that former president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa offer an apology to the population for the case of his Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, convicted in the United States for drug trafficking.
He stated the above after in a radio interview, the former president accused him of ruining the party. That’s why they call it 3M: because of Marko, mediocre and miserable.
Calderón Hinojosa stressed when describing it as a strategic error that the blue and white distances itself from its governments.
The former head of the federal Executive again justified his administration’s policies, including in matters of security: We faced criminals, we risked our lives, we defended people; The PAN has that letter with which to accredit itself as an alternative for Mexico
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Cortés Mendoza said that the former president should not act indignant. On the contrary, the “indignant ones are the Mexicans… the PAN members. “Mexico and the PAN deserve a timely explanation… and apologies.”
He stressed that the true fall of his party occurred during the Calderón Hinojosa government, when presidential candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota came in third place in the 2012 elections.
He should be ashamed, because he left Josefina Vázquez Mota alone because her candidate, Ernesto Cordero, did not win, and being president of Mexico, having had a third place and having had the worst fall in the history of the PAN, because there we did fall in points. I received the game at 17 points and it ended at 17 percentage points
that is, he maintained his intention to vote, he noted.
Cortés Mendoza insisted on his proposal to classify drug trafficking as terrorism so that it investigate everyone, including the Morenistas, all the García Lunas of this country, of any government, including that of Claudia Sheinbaum
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He asked that everyone shield themselves and take measures so that events like that of the former Secretary of Security are not repeated.
At a press conference, Calderón’s former Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Ramírez Acuña, was asked if he saw attitudes that made him doubt García Luna. He responded that he only lasted a year and a half in office and during that time he did not have further communication with the former official. Nor did the former president say anything about it, he said.
