Sheinbaum promoted in ‘My Scholarship to Start’ program

Mexico City officials promote the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, house by house, during visits to families benefiting from the “My Scholarship to Start” program. Since mid-February, mothers and fathers of minors began to see a notice on the scholarship application that they would be visited by local officials to update data. Without specifying any calendar or schedules for the visits to be made, a dozen families from the mayor’s offices Venustiano Carranza, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Iztapalapa and Álvaro Obregón reported that people with cherry-colored vests have already gone to their homes. They presented themselves as workers in the Citizen Participation area of the Secretariat of Welfare and Social Development (Sibiso) and the Guaranteed Education Trust (Fidegar). Read more: CDMX has its Tinder scammers; During the visits, they attributed the government’s scholarship program to Sheinbaum, even though the customization violates the Constitution, which prohibits the use of official programs for personal promotion, as well as the misuse of public resources. They spend it saying: it is that Claudia Sheinbaum this, Claudia Sheinbaum is updating data, Claudia Sheinbaum asked us for the register to verify it, “explained one of the mothers visited. The beginning of this update was registered when the electoral ban had already been determined, which by law prohibits the use of public resources to collect signatures, as well as dissemination. Officials asked the mothers and fathers for their personal details, photographed their voter credentials, had them sign on an electronic device and told them that the data would be uploaded to a platform, whose name they did not specify. They used to be called “NEETs”: AMLO highlights jobs as apprentices and scholarships to young people in Q4

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