No problem if they investigate my son, says the President

Nestor Jimenez and Fabiola Martinez

Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, February 22, 2022, p. 5

In the event that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) opens an investigation folder for an alleged conflict of interest of your son, there is no problem, we all must appear before the authority. And he who owes nothing, fears nothingPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador said yesterday.

He stated that if complaints are filed against José Ramón, his eldest son, or his wife, that they be processed, just as if he does the same, but he stressed: I would recommend that they not do it, that they do not, that they respond if there are complaints. Imagine, if I start denouncing those who slander me, then I would not have time to govern, nothing.

He reiterated that a smear campaign on the part of the underworld of journalismWho they put all this together to weaken the authority of the government and especially my authority, because we do continue to have citizen support. Even though they are hard and hard and hardcalled to imagine the frustration of allocating money to a war dirty and that he has 70 percent acceptance.

For this reason, he reminded his opponents that in the revocation of the mandate they have a chance For indicate if the government is bad, if you don’t like how I govern.

In the context of the April referendum, he endorsed his commitment to resign if he does not have a majority, and ideally, we would all participate, all citizens, this is unprecedented, it is history, how are we going to miss it.

He insisted that “if they are dissatisfied and there are those who think that we were better off before, then they have that possibility of expressing it peacefully, without shouting, without hats, without insults, without violence, that is democracy; not with undermining work, that is, wanting to undermine, weaken the government with war dirtywith campaigns of hate, of smear”.

After adding that in seven out of 10 households some support from the budget arrives, he pointed out that his statements do not violate the electoral ban within the framework of the consultation because I am not saying that the population leans towards one or the other positionbut proposes to resolve differences by the democratic method.

He also insisted on his call to journalists who earn high salaries, both in Mexico and in the United States, to disclose their income, and to the United States government to make transparent the funds it grants to organizations in the country.

asked the neighboring country that it is no longer financing groups that openly act as opponents of governments, in my case, in our case, of a legally and legitimately constituted government, because it is an interventionist act, a violation of our sovereignty.

The issue, he said, is not discussed with the US government for reasons of diplomatic finessebut described as shame meddle in the internal life of another country.