Roberto Garduno and Fabiola Martinez
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, March 31, 2022, p. 3
To the popular election of the electoral advisers and the magistrates of the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF), considered in the future initiative of reform in the matter of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will be added the reduction of 20 thousand million pesos to 10 billion, the budget to organize the electoral processes; eliminate plurinominal deputies and senators; federalize voting to avoid duplication with state bodies and reduce the prerogatives of political parties.
In his morning conference, he criticized the conservatism that is mainly manifested in the Benito Juárez mayor’s office and Las Lomas de Chapultepec, where there are sectors of the middle class that defend the corrupt regime and justify everything, everything. The same thing happens with the academy, with researchers, with intellectuals and, of course, with journalists. For a long time, these 36 years, they imposed or reaffirmed a dominant thought, very conservative, classist, racist, the worst.
With a hard tone and a serious face, he reiterated the demand to Felipe Calderón because owes us an explanation
by hiring Genaro García Luna, by accepting that the United States government pass weapons to Mexico, declaring war on drug trafficking and erecting a fence in Tula.
The president outlined his conviction that it is transformation is necessary, a new current of thought in which we are more and more fraternal, love for others is practiced, we shake hands with the one who was left behind so that he pairs up and we all walk together, that we are not thinking that happiness , as I always maintain, are material goods, money, fame, titles
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López Obrador’s irony was evident when he touched on the subject of the so-called gray house in Houston, because now the PAN senators scoff with the presentation of a game to assemble with that building, “a Lego from José Ramón’s house, a Lego. How much creativity, sweeties. ‘Everyone wants the Lego of La Casa Gris, López Obrador’s biggest bodoque’ –he referred to a tweet from his opponents, and continued–, that is, that is what they did, a very creative question, a rented house and a whole scandal ” .
And he added to that the demand of his critics for him to explain himself, with a owes us an explanation
, to which he replied with a demand to Calderón: “it bothers you when I say here, Calderón owes us an explanation of why he hired –and he was his right arm– (Genaro) García Luna, why he accepted that the United States government United States introduced weapons to Mexico violating our sovereignty, why he declared war and owes us a lot of explanations about the massacres in his government and, well, also why he offered to build a refinery and just did the fence (in Tula), and many things. I mean, how many explanations”.
Thus he described that, in his electoral proposal, which will be announced after April 10: “I am proposing that the Executive, fulfilling that profile, make a proposal of 20; 10 women and 10 men; the Judicial Branch and the Legislative Branch, there are already 60, and to spread who they are, what they have dedicated themselves to and that those who are going to be on the (electoral) council come from there; whoever has the most votes of all, president. That the counselors and the same the magistrates.
Budget. Why is it going to cost so much (the organization of the elections) if we can save half? Why 20 billion and why not 10 thousand? Third, why so many deputies or so many senators?
as well as the reduction of the prerogatives to the parties.
He did not relent in his criticism of the INE, because It costs a lot, it is the most expensive electoral body in the world and also without confidence. In other words, we need to be, to establish a body that really enforces democracy in the country, which is fundamental, not to return to the times of electoral fraud
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