MEXICO City.-A large number of politicians, academics, intellectuals, legislators and leaders of social organizations denounced a black campaign against the candidate for the government of Puebla, Enrique Cárdenas. Demanded the Federal and state governments Do not intervene in the campaign to influence the local process in favor of the Morenista Miguel Barbosa. ” We ask the INE to use all its powers and moral leadership to confront the inequity of the local media. And above all we demand that the state and federal authorities not use the institutions of justice or of any kind to influence the electoral campaigns “, quotes a statement issued one day before the debate to be held from candidates to Local government. The signatories accused a new episode of Dirty War against the foreign candidate for Governorship de Puebla, Enrique Cárdenas, through a publication on May 14, with support from a public relations agency, and later in other media.
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The text is signed by Jacqueline Peschard, María Amparo Marry, Sergio Aguayo, Martha Tagle, Mauricio Merino, Carlos Heredia and Federico Reyes Heroles. Also María Elena Morera, Jorge G. Castañeda, Jacobo Dayan, Emilio Álvarez Icaza, Alejandra Latapí, Claudio X. González, Sergio López Ayllón, Ángeles Mastretta, and Cecilia Soto. “With incomplete information and in some cases false, a complaint is reported to the attorney General of the Republic against Dr. Cárdenas for an alleged tax evasion by being director of the Center for Espinosa Yglesias Studies.
This ‘ note ‘ is actually a ‘ rehash ‘ of the threats expressed by former senator Carlos Puente of the Green Party, in March 2017, denounced.
They quoted that now that party is part of the coalition that postulates Miguel Barbosa. They clarified that these accusations were refuted since then by Enrique Cárdenas, then director of the center, in his column in the same medium, on March 31, 2017. There is No tax fraud in accordance with the legal rules governing the expenditure of civil associations. On the other hand, it is clear that this tendentious note is part of the dirty and negative campaign that from power was orchestrated to curb the growth of Cárdenas ‘ candidacy, they denounced.
They said that this is in addition to other slanders and the informative siege and the negative bias that most local media in Puebla are applying to the campaign of candidate Cardenas, according to the weekly report of the INE monitoring. They warned that this inequity of the media, under the pressure of local government, substantially affects the democratic quality of the race in Puebla. ” We are aware of Dr. Cardenas ‘ personal and professional commitment to combating corruption, so we urge citizens to confront this dirty war with verified information, “they said. The text is also signed by Jorge Javier Romero, José Antonio Polo Oteyza, Alfredo Lecona, Ixchel Cisneros Bachelor, Lucía Riojas, Carlos Vázquez, Mariana Domínguez, Blanca Heredia, Juan Pablo Álvarez, Dora Luz Galindo, Teresa pailles, Mauricio Bravo, Paola Migoya , Rafael Dondé and Leopoldo Hernández, among others.
