Yolanda Chio
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, March 17, 2022, p. eleven
Monterrey, NL., The former governor Jaime Rodríguez Calderón was linked last night to the process by a control judge during the initial hearing, which continued at press time. The diligence began minutes after 4:00 p.m., virtually and without access to the media, at the request of the defense of The Bronco.
After a recess, almost at 11 p.m., it was reported that the control judge Carlos Salas González found enough elements to link the former president to the process, so the hearing continued to rule on the precautionary measures to which the politician should be submitted. arrested on Tuesday in the municipality of General Terán.
Salas González, as well as members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Special Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes of Nuevo León (Fedenl) and Rodríguez Calderón and his defense, remotely, from a room, participated in the hearing from the Palace of Justice in Monterrey. authorized in prison 2 of Apodaca, where The Bronco he is confined.
The Fedenl, according to what was stated in the hearing, has elements to accuse the former governor for his probable participation in acts with characteristics of electoral crimes
infractions that according to the Federal Penal Code and the General Law on Electoral Crimes merit informal preventive detention.
However, neither the Federal Reserve nor the state government, nor the defense of Jaime Rodríguez have specified what crimes the former president is accused of; The arrest warrant was allegedly executed after he had used state officials and public resources to obtain the signatures that were required to compete in the 2018 presidential elections as an independent candidate.
Around 10 p.m., through social networks, Governor Samuel García, from the Movimiento Ciudadano party, warned that “a new beginning implies not tolerating corruption, not allowing impunity and that justice be done. Today we took an important step to achieve it.
If someone, whoever, broke the law and abused the trust of the people of New Leon, they will have to be held accountable and pay the consequences
sentenced.
In the morning, the lawyer Víctor Olea Pérez, who heads the legal team that defends the former president, declared that the crimes charged to The Bronco they did not require informal pre-trial detention, so they sought their freedom.
The legal team even promoted four amparos, of which three have not been resolved and in one the first district court in criminal matters asked to make some clarifications in the document.
The General Law on Electoral Crimes contemplates informal preventive detention when an official requests votes for pay, promise of money or other consideration, or through violence or threat pressures another to attend proselytizing events or to vote or refrain from voting for a candidate. , political party or coalition during the electoral campaign, on election day or in the three days prior to it.
