Arturo Sánchez Jiménez
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 23, 2024, p. 8
Former presidential candidate Gabriel Quadri is not consistent, President Claudia Sheinbaum said this Friday, saying that, after he criticized the Welfare Pension for Seniors, he was caught doing the paperwork to obtain it.
Well, if he was consistent, he wouldn’t go for his pension, would he?
he said in his daily press conference at the National Palace, where he asked that a photo of Quadri be projected in a Welfare module, as well as his comments on social networks against social programs.
In the first publication he published, dated October 21 of this year, the former deputy points out: In Mexico, pensions for older adults are unsustainable (especially non-contributory ones) due to the aging of the population, a lower proportion between formal workers and older adults, informality, low tax collection and longer life expectancy. In the coming years it will burst fiscally
.
In the second, which dates back to last year, he expressed that Pensions for older adults are a time bomb that López is leaving to the following governments, without a sustainable financing mechanism
.
I pay taxes
Hours later, the former legislator responded on platform ethically right since I pay for it with my taxes
and accused being subject to official harassment for registering to receive the subsidy.
He added that I had not done it before since I was a federal representative and I did not consider it correct
but confirmed: yes, I am against this type of generalized subsidies
.