translated from Spanish: Mayor of Tijuana denounces threats from Governor Bonilla in BC

After last Saturday, August 22, the governor of Baja California, Jaime Bonilla Valdez, accused the mayor of Tijuana, Arturo González Cruz, of neglecting his work by campaigning for the governorship of 2021, both characters have made mutual accusations that already point to the undersecretary of the governor, Ricardo Peralta.
Although Bonilla and Gonzalez competed in the last local elections for the same political alliance with Morena at the helm, now, both politicians are feuding and mutual accusations have been publicly launched.
Read more: Bonilla denies his government’s aggression against the press but responds with disqualifications
The governor accuses the mayor of being a “depressive maniac” and of neglecting Tijuana for thinking about the next government; and the municipal president signals Bonilla to lead a political coup against his government to destabilize him.
On August 25, the mayor of Tijuana released a video in which he accused the undersecretary of governor, Ricardo Peralta, as well as the government of Baja California of “threats”.
According to the mayor, on Monday 24, Undersecretary Peralta quoted him in his Mexico City office, where “with a threat tone he warned me that there was an investigation against my secretary for the sale of a seizure, making it clear that the alleged money from that sale was to be used for my campaign. I’m not on the campaign trail, and there was no such seizure. It’s fake, I deny it.”
In saying, de González, Peralta’s argument is “absolutely false”, so he held him accountable and “the state government of repeated attacks on the government of the municipality and my person, who seek to destabilize us”.
Undersecretary Ricardo Peralta is the same character as the then president of the Congress of Baja California, Benjamín Gómez, accused of trying to bribe him to call a session and vote for the failed reform known as “Ley Bonilla”, which was intended for Governor Jaime Bonilla to extend his administration for five years, even though he participated in a two-year election.
“Under no reason will I renounce my political rights,” said Mayor González Cruz, who on Tuesday at a press conference asked Governor Bonilla, as well as Undersecretary Peralta, for a public apology for these “master threats.”
He said that from the beginning of his administration to date, he has visited 75% of the colonies of Tijuana. “Apparently this work bothers some people,” alluding to Governor Bonilla, who separately accused Mayor González of neglecting Tijuana for his interest in competing for the 2021 government.
“You can’t buy the candidacy”
Bonilla during his press conference on Tuesday to publicize the actions taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic took advantage of the space and sent a message to the Mayor of Tijuana, who previously requested a public apology.
“You can’t buy the application. There’s a message usually going on. So that the municipal president doesn’t feel alluded to,” the governor said.

Bewildered by the comments of the Municipal President of Tijuana Arturo González, and with the sole commitment of…
Posted by Jaime Bonilla Valdez on Tuesday, August 25, 2020

In addition, in response to the mayor’s apology, Bonilla assured that the one who should apologize to the Tijuanians was González Cruz himself.
“You are the one who has failed them. I ask you: Where were you when the deslave of the Ballesteros colony came, where you were… with the deslave of the Vergel… with Sanchez Taboada’s deslave? It’s the state government that’s stood up to all that. In the absence of the municipal authorities.”
“This is not the country (Tijuana private club), you are used to a country policy and here it is work, I invite you to reflect…”, Added Bonilla.
At this same conference, where Baja California health secretary Dr. Oscar Perez Rico was also attended, the mocking governor asked his secretary if he could make “a consultation” about the medical status of the mayor of Tijuana, Arturo González Cruz, whom he criticized for the different statements he had offered in recent hours about the differences between the two.
“What happens when in the morning they are well happy, happy, you speak well of everyone, and at noon you are ranting and saying that they are threatening you to be followed, and then in the night you have no problem… particularly with the governor who in the morning said you had no problem and at noon I was attacking you… how do you medically contemplate such behavior?” Bonilla asked the clerk.
“You must have a lot of pressure and a state of anxioussevere age… surely inaccurate information passed to him, but if I see how a state of severe anxiety could be characterized.”
“What illness was that of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde?” asked Pérez Rico again, alluding to the novel that speaks of a character with a double personality, but also the Tijuan mayor.
“Bipolar disorder … maniac-depressive, ” replied the secretary of health.
Following Bonilla’s conference, the mayor of Tijuana issued a new message in which he called “to sanity to unity, to coordinated work for the benefit of the Tijuanians”.
“It is clear to me that we are very different, but I firmly believe that the personal differences I may have with me should not affect professionally the work for which we were elected, democracy demands tolerance and respect.”
Animal Político sought the Ministry of the Interior to obtain a position from Undersecretary Ricardo Peralta for the signals issued by the Mayor of Tijuana, but the institution replied that there would be no stance on this issue.
With information from Semanario Zeta and Pregonero Baja
What we do in Animal Político requires professional journalists, teamwork, dialogue with readers and something very important: independence. You can help us keep going. Be part of the team.
Subscribe to Animal Politics, receive benefits and support free journalism #YoSoyAnimal.

Original source in Spanish

Related Posts

Add Comment