Enrique Mendez
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 22, 2025, p. 4
The National Commission of Guarantees of the Labor Party (PT) will analyze sanctions against federal deputy and businessman Wblester Santiago Pineda, 62, for the attacks and destruction he caused in a shopping plaza in Metepec, on December 2, allegedly while intoxicated.
The insults and attacks were recorded on video and spread on social networks, where the PT legislator can be seen together with the then head of the Highway Board of the state of Mexico, Ariel Juárez, who had to resign two days later due to these events.
Faced with the scandal, Santiago Pineda offered to pay 400 thousand pesos for the damage caused to the furniture in the shopping plaza.
The party’s statutes define that militants, legislators and leaders must have exemplary behavior and the case was also presented before the ethics committee of the Chamber of Deputies, precisely by the coordinator of the party, Reginaldo Sandoval.
The commission – made up of 15 national councilors of the party – is empowered to apply sanctions as provided for in article 115 of the party’s statutes. Furthermore, article 114, section K, defines “performing physical attacks” as one of the grounds for punishment.
The statutes provide that the militant or affiliate will be sanctioned, depending on the seriousness of the offense, through “formal warning, revocation of the mandate of the party leadership position; separation and temporary suspension of their rights or permanent expulsion, cancellation of membership, and, where appropriate, promoting the corresponding judicial action.”
Even with the disqualification to be nominated for popular or party elected positions and, finally, with the loss of the right to be elected as a member of the party’s governing bodies.
