Nestor Jimenez
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, February 24, 2022, p. 6
After the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Arturo Zaldívar, maintained that during the government of Felipe Calderón there was pressure and a State operation to protect the family of the former president’s wife, Margarita Zavala, and involve her in the case of the ABC nursery, former Secretary of the Interior Fernando Gómez-Mont replied that it is false that there was undue pressure on the ministers. The federal government was an interested party in this procedure, it presented its legal arguments as it was its right
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The minister assured that Gómez-Mont, being the head of the Interior, visited him in his office to pressure him to change the draft ruling on the case, and stated that the tone of voice was rising more and more, until we ended up shouting at one point the secretary tells me: the president says that we do not support you for this
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In this regard, in statements to the dayGómez-Mont stated that It is false that I took a message from the president to the minister. I’m not a messenger
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After acknowledging that there was a rapprochement with Zaldívar in the framework of the discussion of the case, the former Secretary of State stated yesterday: I presented the arguments that supported the position of the federal public administration. I don’t remember the minister yelling. I think that impression would not have been erased by his peculiar timbre of voice
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With his comments, Gómez-Mont asserted, Zaldívar insults the ministers of that time and the current ones. Establishing that the verbal arguments presented by the parties to the ministers are undue pressure is absurd
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He also considered that The minister denigrates himself when he accuses the government that proposed him to join the Court of being authoritarian and that promoted the most far-reaching constitutional reforms in the area of human rights
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