PRI and PAN, blurred and in “decadent stage”: AMLO

Alonso Urrutia and Nestor Jimenez

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday June 10, 2022, p. 5

The opposition bloc parties are in a decadent stagewhose integration has blurred them as political forces, which has affected their identity, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who insisted on disqualifying the main strategist: Claudio X. González.

Now it turns out, he said, that they want to get rid of the PRI, as suggested by the report by Mexicans Against Corruption that accuses the leader of the tricolor, Alejandro Moreno, of fraudulent operations in the purchase of real estate in Campeche.

In his morning conference, the president returned to the electoral issue. He asserted that the publications of Mexicans against Corruption (by Claudio X. González) they show a crisis, a decomposition that must lead to new actions, to make decisions, not to fall into complacency. Can you imagine that after Sunday they celebrated that they had done very well? In other words, your matter is very serious politically.

He pointed out that if in the past the link between the PRI and the PAN was denied (when talking about the PRIAN), now that they have joined “they have not received benefits. Many PAN members wonder about the advantages of allying with the Institutional Revolutionary. They assume that it harms them and some sectors are struggling to leave the coalition, so that now the PAN is PAN –and that is not bad– and the PRI is PRI”.

Without questioning, he went back to review the situation of the opposition bloc: “It made me laugh that there is a video where Creel questions us, and now this report by Mexicans Against Corruption comes out, reporting that ‘in property records it is revealed that In April 2022, the national leader of the PRI, a brother, his mother and his chief architect own 35 houses and land in Campeche’, and they do all the reporting”.

The questionable thing is why they publish this information until the elections are over. Why did they spread them until yesterday? No way that journalism is waiting when electorally appropriate. No, an investigation is done and it comes out. This shows that this group does politics, not journalism.