The President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He pointed out that the support of the PAN senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez to the judicial reform It was a political decision and not one made under pressure.
This Wednesday, when questioned whether the change of position of the Veracruz legislator responded to some type of negotiation -“deal”- which would have included money or impunity, the outgoing president said that:
“He is a politician and he considered it convenient to act in that way, and it was not necessarily a sum of money or a threat in exchange, he is strong, I have faced him and he is not one to be intimidated, no. It was a political decision”.
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At the same time, he said he was “very happy” with the approval of said constitutional change by 86 votes in favor and 41 against, in addition to the fact that, at 10:00 a.m., he had already garnered 2 of the 17 votes in favor of the bill. local congresses (Oaxaca and Tamaulipas), so this September 10 was “a very important day.”
And for this reason he stressed that it has notable differences with the Yunes familyin particular with the father, who was his son’s substitute yesterday in the first part of the session of the Upper House:
“I have notable differences with him (Yunes Linares), as I have differences with many others, but in politics you always have to choose between disadvantages and seek a balance between efficiency and principles.”
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—What was negotiated (with Yunes Márquez)? —he was asked by the press
—Nothing, absolutely nothing. And do you know why people think there was a negotiation? Because that is one of the problems that the conservatives and their spokesmen have, they think we are just like them. I could tell him not to talk to Yunes or his son, he replied.
In turn, he considered that, if there was a negotiation, this could have been through the coordinator of the Morena senators, Adam Augusto Lopezbut stressed that the decision to support or not the project was up to each legislator, freely.
He also said that the so-called Plan C and that this does not satisfy many, but he asked those who are against to take into account the future benefit:
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“We must also consider the benefits for the future of our country, that judges can dispense justice because they have been elected by the people, not by the elites in power.”
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