Andrea Becerril and Georgina Saldierna
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday February 9, 2023, p. 7
The coordinator of the PRI senators, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, denied that he could be removed from office; He specified that he is going to the meeting that he will hold this afternoon with the national leader of his party, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, with the aim of resolving differences to prevent them from rebounding in the elections in the state of Mexico and Coahuila.
In an interview, he made it clear that the request to be expelled from the PRI, raised by the representative of the party’s Territorial Movement, Erubiel Alonso, will be confronted by the PRI’s internal justice bodies, and if necessary, he will appeal to the Electoral Tribunal of Power Federation Court to defend their political rights.
Questioned about the comments of Senators Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín and Claudia Anaya, in the sense that it is not ruled out that there will be a change in coordination if the positions are irreconcilable, Osorio Chong stressed: By the mandate of my colleagues, I am here for two periods, of the 64th and 65th legislatures, and here I am, always at your service.
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In this regard, Senator Claudia Ruiz Massieu commented: Personally, I fully support my coordinator Miguel Ángel Osorio; I think that there is on the part of the rest of the senators, but they are issues of the bench that in any case are addressed within, and in the Senate of the Republic; in no other space
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Likewise, Osorio Chong specified that he will always be at the service of his parliamentary group, not of personal interests or outside the Senate. He expressed that for the good of the party and the legislative work, he hopes that they can continue to act as an opposition bloc.
If they want to introduce other issues, I insist, I will see them personally as a PRI militant, but what is important, what is substantial, is the relationship of the legislative matter of my group with the CEN (PRI national executive committee); It’s what I’m going for, it’s what I summoned.
The former Secretary of the Interior specified that there will be two meetings at the PRI headquarters, one at 5 in the afternoon, between him and Moreno Cárdenas, and an hour later another with the 13 PRI senators.
alito First he said that the meeting was going to be general, then he sent me an invitation to speak bilaterally, as I requested, and then he summons the entire group; we will be at both meetings
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To an express question, Osorio Chong replied that he does not regret having left the meeting of the parliamentary group, last week, when alito appeared surprisingly. It was an agreement that they are unaware of, but of course there are ways to prove, that he could arrive at 6 in the afternoon, speak with the group or with those who wanted to stay. I wanted to avoid a disagreement that would be more complex for my party in the media
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He also expressed that they are above those speeches that accuse as traitors those who disagree with the actions of the leadership. “The proof of my militancy is every day in my actions. Only once have I come down the track multiple, unlike others, who have done it more than three times. I am a man of the land, of the countryside, of competition, that is how I won the governorship of my state and the federal deputy, and I have participated in many other elections ”.
