Following the announcement by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) that it investigates two candidates from Nuevo León to the gubernatura, Movimiento Ciudadano required President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to get his hands off the electoral process, while the standard-bearer of the PRI-PRD, Adrián de la Garza, left the country because he planned a trip to Washington.
From Monterrey, the senators’ coordinator of the Citizen Movement party, Dante Delgado, lashed out at López Obrador and assured that there is no plan B regarding Samuel García’s candidacy, but that he has full party support.
Read: FGR accuses candidates Samuel Garcia and Adrián de la Garza for electoral crimes
“We asked the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to get his hands off the electoral process,” said he was MC’s national leader.
“To refrain from violating electoral legislation that prevents public authorities from participating in the electoral process.”
Dante Delgado announced that they are courage to file a complaint for this interventionism.
Delgado criticized that he does not assume his role as president of the entire country, but of acting as a factional leader and being small, as he continues to think about his interests, rather than thinking about those of the country. He accused him of only distracting attention from truly important topics, such as the deaths of 26 people in the metro accident in Tláhuac, mexico City, or with actions such as presenting a singer at his morning conference.
“To celebrate mothers, she’s giving the law rule in Mexico in the idem,” she launched.
Candidate Samuel Garcia, for his part, reiterated that he does not know that there are formal investigations against him because he has not been notified. He said he was at a Mother’s Day family dinner when he learned by the media of the FGR announcement communiqué.
“That there are some alleged allegations of supposed citizens and that they are going to open some supposed folders, which I don’t know to this day,” he said.
In his brief participation in the conference, he was infphatic in asking the authorities and the Prosecutor’s Office for Electoral Crimes to remove his family and especially his wife, social media influencer Mariana Rodríguez.
“All I’m guilty of is going 15 points up in the polls,” he said.
It assured that expenditure was constantly being reported to the INE and no irregularities had been detected.
After the conference, the comments on the local Citizen Movement committee were that far from being harmed, it is strengthened because it is clear that the president wants to intervene in the election.
While the Adrián de la Garza campaign team reported that the candidate would continue with his agenda as planned, which involved leaving Mexico for a visit to the U.S. capitol, amid the controversy of an investigation against him, which, as electoral crimes, may warrant pre-trial detention.
On the way to Washington, D.C,, where I’ll have several meetings that will come out of some really good things for Nuevo León. ???? pic.twitter.com/B3yFWp8Anp
— Adrian de la Garza (@AdrianDeLaGarza) May 11, 2021
This morning President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accepted that he has intervened in the current electoral process, but “only to denounce possible fraud” and acts such as the purchase of votes.
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