Fight for social programs

Mexico City. The electoral contest was moved again yesterday to the Senate plenary session, where Morena and the PAN now intertwined over the paternity of social programs. For more than three hours, insults and accusations were thrown at each other, and they even used videos to attack each other.

In this climate of confrontation, the president of the board of directors, Ana Lilia Rivera (Morena), called attention several times to PAN member Lilly Téllez, who as part of her offensive against the guinda party screamed and hit the lectern with a vest. bulletproof that he carried. Rivera ordered that her microphone be turned off for trying to bring up a different topic – that of violence against candidates – than the one that was being discussed, and she told him: “this is a space for serious debate, not for show media and mediocre.”

The discussion began when the PAN members placed two tarps on the wall of honor and in front of the tribune. In one it was read that No party can take away your social programs. Are yours and in the other: If someone tells you that you can lose social programs, report them.

Julen Rementería, coordinator of the blue and white, He summarized the arguments that his co-religionists repeated over and over again: with the presidential candidate

He also explained that these programs do not come out of the President’s pocket and that they are insured because that is what the Constitution establishes. Don’t tell lies, the PAN voted in favor to integrate them into the Magna Carta, he launched.

The Morenista Antares Vázquez reversed herself after hearing that the support existed before the arrival of the current government in 2018: Now it turns out that the PAN claims paternity and maternity of the social programs of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

He recalled that in the Chamber of Deputies, National Action voted against bringing these programs to the Constitution, but as the people went for the jugular, in the Senate he had to vote in favor, although his positions were against. Consult the Diary of Debates, recommended the Morenista, who as part of her accusations against the PAN requested that the video of Gálvez’s son, Juan Pablo Sánchez, be broadcast, in which he appears in a drunken state, insulting the security personnel of a nightclub.

Meanwhile, his coreligionist Omar Olguín requested that a well-known recording be played in which former president Vicente Fox calls guevones to those who receive social programs and are required to go to work. The cherry legislator pointed out that if the PAN members had enough votes they would remove said endorsements. It has only been many years since snakes no longer walk on their feet and God has not given wings to scorpions. They will never have those votes.

Verónica Camino Farjat (Morena) did not have a video recording, but she highlighted statements by the PAN leader, Marko Cortés, on March 26, 2019, in which he assured that his party believes in a productive Mexico and not one of handouts, as well as a tweet from the opposition’s presidential standard-bearer on April 29, 2020, where she points out that adult pensions should be temporary, because they only encourage dependency and conformism.

But not only PAN members and Morenistas came prepared for the discussion. The PRI too. Claudia Esther Balderas asked that a video be shown in which Rocío Nahle, candidate of the guinda party for governor of Veracruz, is seen in a restaurant, where some diners shout at her to leave. One more video that was projected in the plenary hall was that of Gálvez’s son apologizing.