The next leader of the PAN is the head of the real estate cartel: Sheinbaum

Néstor Jiménez and Emir Olivares

La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, p. 3

After the triumph of Jorge Romero in the internal process of the PAN this Sunday, which makes him the next national leader of the party, President Claudia Sheinbaum stressed that the PAN member He is the head of the real estate cartel; We got to know him very well in Mexico City.

Questioned at her morning conference about the new leader of the blue and white, main opposition party, the president indicated that This group that today reaches the leadership of the PAN is a group known by the PAN members themselves, in these highly corrupt schemes that were born in the Benito Juárez mayor’s office, of which Romero was head. “As witnesses, the businessmen themselves revealed the modus operandi from that very corrupt group,” he added.

When referring to the PAN member, he took up part of a book by former President Felipe Calderón, one of whose pages was projected on the screen installed in the Treasury room of the National Palace.

“In his book (Calderón) says: ‘Jorge Romero, from Mexico City, former delegate in Benito Juárez, famous for the corruption cases that extorted companies constantly reveal. A friend of his and nephew of mine told me that he stopped working with him when Romero himself confessed that associations of street vendors and others represented profits of 7 million pesos a month for his group. With them, in addition, they had leaked the PAN register throughout the city.’ That’s what Calderón thinks, who is not exactly someone who supports the 4T, right?”, indicated the President.

Faced with these accusations, he expressed: So, well, so say what renewal the National Action Party had, not much, right?

Sheinbaum recalled that at the time, the then head of the capital’s prosecutor’s office, Ernestina Godoy, began various investigations after an explosion in a building caused by a gas tank. During the investigations, it was found that all the apartments were registered under the same name, a situation that was repeated in other properties, since they were also built violating land uses.

When this comes out, the inhabitants of these buildings begin to report to the prosecutor’s office and the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing that they cannot deed their property, because the plan shows that it has five floors, but they bought on the sixth. Then, his department was non-existent.said the president.

He also noted that “a modus operandi, where the builder gave money to the mayor, delegate, at the time, to allow him to build extra floors.”

He explained that during the government of Miguel Mancera in Mexico City, local deputies, including Romero, sought share the fund for reconstruction after the 2017 earthquake: So, that’s what came to the PAN leadership.

He clarified that National Action will have dialogue with the federal government through the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.