Far from the streets of the capital, Monreal Ávila will instead attend the XVI Spain-Mexico Interparliamentary Meeting, to be held on November 28 in Madrid, where he will serve as the president of the Mexican delegation, made up of 21 legislators from all parliamentary factions. .
That is why he will be the only presidential candidate who will not appear in the photograph with López Obrador, who will be accompanied by the “corcholatas” Claudia Sheinbaum, head of the city government, Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE), and Adán Augusto López , head of the Interior (Segob), who have confirmed their attendance.
The official march was called by López Obrador himself in the heat of the citizen mobilization on the 13th against his electoral reform proposal. The president called on his followers to return to the streets, where he had not mobilized since he took office in 2018, to celebrate the beginning of his penultimate year in office with a march.
Why is Monreal going to Spain?
According to the legislator, preparations for the meeting began 3 months ago, and it was Foreign Minister Ebrard who asked to give it a “high-level” status, hence it is him, in his capacity as president of the Political Coordination Board ( Jucopo) of the Senate, who acts as president of the Mexican delegation.
It is at this level that for the first time in a meeting of this type, the parliamentary coordinators of all the benches in the Senate will attend -Monreal himself as the leader of the majority of the Morena senators- and the majority of those of the Chamber of Deputies, except Ignacio Mier, from Morena and Alberto Anaya, from the Labor Party (PT), who will attend the presidential mobilization.
The importance of the meeting, stated Monreal, is that an Interparliamentary with Spain has not been held for almost five years.
Originally, the meeting would take place from Saturday 26 to Monday 28. However, in its latest version, the meeting agenda establishes that it will be held on a single day, Monday.
Why is the Interparliamentary relevant?
Because both nations seek to resolve the context of distance between the two nations since the government of President López Obrador began, whose positions have generated moments of bilateral tension.
This began on March 25, 2019, when the Mexican president demanded that the Spanish government and kingdom offer Mexico a public apology “for the abuses committed” during the conquest, which occurred more than 500 years ago.
“I sent a letter to the King of Spain and another letter to the Pope so that a report of grievances is made and the original peoples are asked for forgiveness for the violations of what are now known as human rights,” revealed the Mexican president.
“There were killings, impositions. The so-called Conquest was made with the sword and with the cross,” the president asserted.
In March 2021, he sent new letters to King Felipe VI of Spain and to Pope Francis, and the same request was repeated on August 13, 2021 as part of the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the conquest of Tenochtitlan.
On December 6, 2021, the president accused Spain of being the source of corruption in Mexico, saying that it began since the Spanish conquest.
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“There is no evidence of corruption in pre-Hispanic times, but there is evidence of corruption since the arrival of the Spanish, the conquistadors,” he said.
Then, on January 19, 2022, he attributed the good relations that existed between the two nations in the past to the corruption of Spanish companies.
“The relationship between the government of Spain and the government of Mexico was more than close during the six-year terms of the neoliberal period, Spanish companies did what they wanted, they saw us as a land of conquest. A kind of second conquest took place, ”he accused.
