AMLO denounces that the pink tide is seeking to violate the Constitution

Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia

The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, p. 5

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted that those calling for the march against alleged overrepresentation are seeking to violate the Constitution in order to prevent the transformation movement from having a qualified majority in the next federal legislature.

Why don’t you be a little bit honest, and it’s not asking too much, and accept the result, which is the decision of the people?he said when referring to the outcome of the June 2 elections, which not only gave his movement victory for the Presidency of the Republic, but, he recalled, also in 256 of the 300 electoral districts.

In yesterday’s morning press conference, without asking a question, the president criticized the hypocrisy of the conservatives who want to continue deceiving to the citizens.

He emphasized that the Constitution is clear in the distribution of plurinominals in Congress, so he criticized the hypocrisy of their adversaries.

“When it suited them, the law was applied to the letter; now, since it doesn’t suit them, they want the Constitution to be interpreted (…) the law is no longer the law, it is now subject to interpretation. Who is going to interpret it? Who has the power to do that?”

He stressed that constitutional law experts are needed to explain the arguments put forward by his opponents during the demonstration held on Sunday in front of the headquarters of the National Electoral Institute (INE).

The head of the Executive considered that the demonstration, called by the so-called pink tidewas very diminishedbecause very few people heeded the call. And some of them They were not even clear about why they were demonstrating, due to all the manipulation they have carried out..

The conservatives’ goal, he said, is to ensure that the transformation movement does not have a qualified majority, because they fear changes to the Constitution, such as the approval of the reform to the Judicial Branch.

“They gambled because they did not want to obtain a qualified majority, but the people said: ‘yes, the Constitution must be reformed.'”

He exemplified that the weekend was “another Saturday morning“A judge granted the former governor of Puebla, Mario Marín, permission to face trial against him for torture and protection of child trafficking networks in freedom.

He added that the Court, even though it has been 12 days since it returned from a long vacation period, has not resolved the issue of the millionaire debt of 25 billion pesos to the public treasury of businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego.

The Court and the entire Judicial Branch are at the service of the powerful and of organized and white-collar crime; what they want is for it to be at the service of corruption.he accused.

He presented the points raised by his opponents at the INE headquarters, where they called to carry out a historical, systematic, teleological and guarantor interpretation of the Constitution to assign proportional representation seats.

Faced with this, López Obrador made it clear that the current election It is qualified based on the current legal framework.

He stressed that during his six-year term he submitted an electoral reform initiative that proposed eliminating plurinominals. And you know what they did? They rejected my proposal..

He asked for evidence in response to the allegations made by Xóchitl Gálvez –whom he did not mention by name– that she had been stolen 10 million votes.

He again demanded that businessman Claudio X. González explain where the resources for the entire project came from. dirty war undertaken during the electoral process, including attacks against it.

He assured that there were even businessmen who were scammed and despite the fact that he himself warned them not to contribute because they would lose their money, They did not understand.

He lashed out at the United States for continuing to finance Claudio X. González’s organization and announced that he will present information on the matter in the coming days. That is interference, because there is no way they don’t know what they are using that money for. Of course it is for political purposes..

He hoped that this dynamic would change now that the elections are coming up in that country. He said that although his American counterpart, Joe Biden, “is very respectful, but as the song says: ‘custom is stronger than love’, some people still have the habit of sticking their two cents in everywhere.”