The attempted arrest of Corral was a kind of revenge, says López Obrador
▲ President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that what happened It is part of the political promiscuity of recent times, of how the PRI and the PAN began to unite.
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.Photo Cristina Rodriguez
Angels Cruz and Emir Olivares
The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, August 16, 2024, p. 11
The attempt to arrest former Chihuahua governor Javier Corral Jurado last Wednesday in Mexico City is a kind of revenge
the result of a political dispute and the alliance between the governor of that state, María Eugenia Campos and the former president, César Duarte, although they are from different parties, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador yesterday.
PAN member Campos has governed the state since 2021. Duarte, from the PRI, served from 2010 to 2016. In 2022, he was brought to trial in Chihuahua for aggravated embezzlement and criminal association. Corral Jurado was the governor between both periods.
López Obrador said that at the security cabinet meeting he was informed of the attempted arrest of Corral Jurado without a collaboration procedure between the Chihuahua authorities and the Attorney General’s Office of the capital.
Judicial police from any state cannot come to arrest someone here without a collaboration procedure.
with local authorities, the president explained.
Without entering into legal terrain, the President raised the political reality, because the other thing is what they call the law is the law, when it suits them
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Javier Corral Jurado was Morena’s candidate for senator on a plurinominal basis in the elections last June. The confirmation of his seat will be finalized once the electoral authority assigns the seats to each party.
Once he is appointed legislator, Corral would have to be stripped of immunity in order to bring him to trial. So, the President explained, They rushed it, because once he is in jail he can no longer be a senator.
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He added: All things considered, this was what they wanted to do to me when they stripped me of my immunity so that I could not appear on the ballot.
of 2006.
What happened, he added, It is part of the political promiscuity of recent times, of how the PRI and the PAN began to unite.
with the calls concertations
(electoral negotiations) that took place in Chihuahua and before that in Baja California, when the PAN member Ernesto Ruffo became the first PAN governor.
