translated from Spanish: AMLO defends Angel Carrizales

“More than experience, honesty is important,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador argued this morning for Angel Carrizales, new head of the Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment (ASEA).
Carrizales had been rejected five times by the Senate for positions in regulatory bodies in the energy sector for lack of experience.
But for this position it was not required to approve the Legislative, it only depended on the appointment of the president.
Read: Angel Carrizales was rejected for 5 counts, now given Agency of Safety, Energy and Environment
In the face of criticism for his lack of experience, López Obrador said that the new holder of the ASEA is a professional, honest person, who knows him, trusts him and does have experience.
“I know him, and you know what matters to me most, more than experience? Honesty. Because there are those who have a lot of experience, they are graduates even at universities abroad, they have even doctorates, but they are dishonest, and we care most about everything is honesty,” he said.
“If we speak in quantitative terms, 90% honesty, 10% experience. How do you see it? Because what was it like before? Backwards. 90% experience, great and also charlatans. But that is, very corrupt, of those who signed everything,” he said.
Not to mention his name, the president said that one of Pemex’s last directors, Emilio Lozoya, has been noted for alleged dishonest acts he committed in his management at the helm of that state-owned company.
“Well Salinas (Carlos Salinas de Gortari), from Harvard, phD at Harvard. Nothing less than the father of modern inequality. For us the most important thing is honesty,” he reiterated.
Carrizales, who served as part of the president’s helpdesk, will hold the position that Luis Vera left vacant about three months ago.
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Original source in Spanish