Sheinbaum assured that the PAN has shown its hypocrisy by selling itself as “progressive” in the 2024 elections and is now allying itself with the extreme right. They seek the return of the privileges of a few, he added.
Mexico City, December 2 (However).– The President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo He assured this Tuesday that the National Action Party (PAN) search return to the Porfiriatowhen a few accumulated all the privileges, and therefore ally now openly with the far rightafter the PAN leader Jorge Romero open the doors to businessman y tax debtor Ricardo Salinas Pliego as possible presidential candidate.
Sheinbaum asked to see what the “new vision of the PAN, by this businessman, and by the international right” upholds. They are the ones who “have carried out all these campaigns against us, and it is very relevant. What is defended by the extreme right? What is defended is a return to the Porfiriato. Although they say the opposite, that has historically been the extreme right, that there is no democracy, that there are no freedoms. Let us remember the coups d’état in South America, fascism. There was no freedom of any kind, there were no elections defined by the people,” said the President in her morning press conference.
“The other is: what is your vision? Money. Accumulation. Accumulating and accumulating money, at the expense of others, by the way. As the President said [Andrés Manuel] López Obrador, which came from a phrase from Hidalgo: his god is money,” he added from the National Palace.
Sheinbaum recalled his speech on November 20, during the commemoration of the Mexican Revolution. “They claim the Porfiriato: the development of the country. Yes, but it was the moment of greatest repression, of greatest exploitation of the people. Even practices of slavery, of extermination of native peoples. If not, there would not have been a revolution,” he said this Tuesday.
“Look at how there is so much hypocrisy. In 2024 they started to say that they were in favor of social programs, that they were now very liberal, that they claimed issues that they had never claimed. Now, that they have relaunched, where are they heading? Towards conservatism that is furthest from the people, distant from the people. Because they are not claiming the rights of the people, but the other way around: the privileges of a few,” highlighted the President.
“Everything must be put in its place. One thing is justice, and there are those who want to politicize that as if it were a political issue. It is not a political issue, it is about complying with the law. And the other is the candidacy that the PAN wants to propose. Or the new demand of the PAN, which is nothing more than vindicating the conservatives of the 19th century, who brought Maximilian, who waged the Reform War against the Constitution of 1857. Or those who defended Porfirio Díaz, or Santa Anna,” he asserted.
A week ago, Jorge Romero, national leader of the PANsaid that the presidential candidacy of Salinas Pliego with the blue and white is a possibility if the businessman was interested and the citizens also showed support for him.
“I see Ricardo Salinas Pliego with perfect clarity. If he is encouraged, advances and we see that he is growing in spirit, of course we do not rule him out,” said Romero in an interview with the newspaper The Country.
The statements of the national leader of the PAN occur in a context where Salinas Pliego himself has hinted at his intentions to become President of Mexico under his Anti-Crime and Anti-Corruption Movement (MAAC), opposed to the current Government of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and the Fourth Transformation (4T) that was formally presented in September.
Although the businessman, who in recent days has received strong blows from the Judiciary that ordered him to pay more than 40 billion pesos that he owes to the Mexican treasury, has not openly expressed his desire to compete for the Presidency, he has issued several messages in which he hints at this possibility, with the aim of removing the “shitty lefties” from the country.
But, Sheinbaum added this morning, “the people of Mexico are not with that, the people want well-being.” “The vision of those who are poor because they do not work: it is their vision. What we think is that for 36 years there was a starvation wage for the people of Mexico, where the minimum wage was not increased due to an ideological and also political vision. And they left many people in misery,” he explained.
“Our vision is that public resources have to be used to build rights. That the State must guarantee the rights of the people of Mexico. They do not believe in that State. We believe that the State must provide free public education. That there must be a public health system, regardless of income. We believe that there must be access to housing. That there must be access to a decent wage, to employment. Does everything have to be done by the State? No, for that there is private investment, that is why we also need entrepreneurs with a social vision. It is a completely different vision,” the President differentiated.
For the Mexican president “it is very important to visualize one project versus another. It is a national project that defends the rights of the people, democracy – understood as representation of the people – and freedoms. And another project, which defends a few, the privilege, which does not defend democracy and not freedoms except for the market,” she indicated. “And it’s good that he says it from now on, because he has no basis.”
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Previously, in the same morning conference, Sheinbaum had referred to the issue of justice, regarding Salinas Pliego’s million-dollar tax debt. “A person who owes taxes, who spent 15 years in a legal procedure, of amparos, amparos, amparos. A resolution of the Court and how they must pay the taxes. It is the rule of law. That resolution must be complied with. And it is important that everyone knows what the procedures are for it to be fulfilled,” he said from the National Palace.
“The other is to politicize that issue, which we do not politicize. This is the law, and the law must be complied with. To politicize the issue of tax collection, we do not do that, that has been done outside, by whoever owes the taxes,” he added.
For this reason, he indicated that from the “morning” the procedure for collecting taxes defined by the Court will be announced. “As soon as the Court notified the SAT, it is important that it be known here because it has been an issue that has been touched upon here and people also want to know what the procedures are for collecting these taxes, where the Court has already defined a criterion and a resolution,” Sheinbaum explained.
In addition, information will also be released on the suspension of casino activities, some of them owned by TV Azteca, after they obtained a suspension to operate again, although a precautionary measure to unfreeze their accounts was rejected.