Before the decision of Ricardo Montreal participate in the Mexico-Spain interparliamentary meeting, therefore next Sunday he will not participate in the march that the president has called Andrés Manuel López Obradorabout twenty senators from the 4T reproached their coordinator for not having supported the president in the “definition” of political times.
In the previous meeting of the parliamentary group and subsequently in the press conference, Morena legislatorsthe PT, the Green Party and the PES, led by César Cravioto Romero, have warned that there are priorities, and right now the priority is to support the President of the Republic, assisting the mobilization of the Angel of Independence at the Zócalo.
“We have to prioritize this issue, we can go to Spain or anywhere else on the planet any other day. Today the important thing is to be with our President, today the important thing is to support the Fourth Transformation. (…) If any other senator decides to have another priority, we respect him, but we believe that today the priority of all of us who have come for this project and who are here in the Senate of the Republic for a transformation project, must prioritize the march with our president next Sunday,” Cravioto Romero said.
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For her part, Senator Citlalli Hernández, Morena’s general secretary, urged bench coordinator Morena to define himself.
“I do not agree with some positions of Senator Ricardo Monreal, which distance him from the positions of the president, but it is his right and we respect him in Morena and we respect him in the Movement, and I think the appeal to respect because the Difference makes part of the plurality and constancy that we have in Morena, but for many of us these are times of definition. There are two national projects under discussion and at least if you ask us who are here, we are with the President of the Republic”, he pointed out .
In turn, the Senator Hector Vasconcelospresident of the Senate Foreign Relations Commission, announced the decision to cancel his participation in the Mexico-Spain Interparliamentary Meeting, to participate in next Sunday’s march.
“I am very pleased to announce that although I had planned to speak at the Mexico-Spain interparliamentary meeting, which is a very important event, there had not been an interparliamentary meeting between these countries, but priorities are priorities, first of all everyone We support our president and the project we fight for every day,” he said.
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I am a man of duty; I don’t travel for pleasure, Monreal’s response to criticism
After the criticisms and reproaches of his own classmates for having chosen to attend the Mexico-Spain interparliamentary meeting In Madrid, and not taking part in the march called by President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador next Sunday, Senator Ricardo Monreal Ávila replied that it was not a rest trip, but that he would represent the country as president of the Mexican delegation.
In an interview, the Morenista coordinator in the Senate recalled that the inter-parliamentary meeting was agreed with Spain three months ago, in addition to the fact that Mexico has promised to send a high-level delegation.
Monreal Ávila stressed that he will fulfill his responsibility as a senator and representative of an organ of the Mexican state, because “first is duty and then pleasure”.
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“I will fulfill my responsibility as Senator of the Republic, and one of the responsibilities is to participate in the official inter-parliamentary meetings, I will represent the country, I will not go on a pleasure trip or a holiday trip, for this (José ) Vasconcelos in ‘Ulises Criollo’ , I realize I’m a man of duty, not a man of pleasure,” he stressed.
The president of the Political Coordination Council (Jucopo) insisted that he had a duty to the Senate and citizens. They pay me, the citizens of this country pay me and they pay me well, all lawmakers and legislators are paid well for our work,” he said.
In addition, he stressed that there will be no need for the march led by President López Obrador on Sunday because more than a million people will surely participate and it will be the largest march in history.
Ricardo Monreal said he is aware that he will receive criticism as there has already been on social networks, “but I will resist the attacks I receive because I know where they come from, I know how they have been orchestrated, I have resisted and I will resist,” he stressed.
With information from Luis Carlos Rodríguez
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