AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum respond to Zedillo

MEXICO CITY.- The president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and her next successor, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, responded to criticism from former president Ernesto Zedillo to the controversial judicial reform recently approved.

As we reportedZedillo Ponce de Leon He spoke for the first time about the political situation in Mexico at the Annual Conference of the International Bar Association (IBA), where he denounced that the so-called Fourth Transformation seeks, with these reforms, turning “democracy into tyranny”.

He stressed that This is an atrocity that will destroy the Judiciary and bury Mexican democracy.

AMLO calls Ernesto Zedillo’s criticisms “ridiculous”

In this regard, in his morning conference, AMLO stated that “our adversaries They get angry, they slander, they insult mebut they don’t go beyond that.”

“They come, they bring Zedillo to say that Mexico is a dictatorship, It’s funny, they make fools of themselvesbut they don’t go beyond that,” he added.

He said that the former president is in their right to demonstrate “because now we do live in a true democracy.”

“It is not a dictatorship, it is not a soft dictatorship and It is not an oligarchy eitheras was the case before when the government of an oligarchy was in power,” he stressed.

Claudia Sheinbaum responds to Zedillo’s criticism

For her part, in a conference where she spoke about reforms that follow, Claudia Sheinbaum described Zedillo as representative of the old regime.

“It represents the regime of corruption and privileges and as such he has an opinion. It’s good that he has an opinion, we are a democratic country,” he continued.

“They say that we are heading towards authoritarianism and the end of the Republic, and that judges will be elected by popular vote, that is, how? Now it turns out that democracy, which is The election of the judiciary represents authoritarianism“Don’t you think that’s a contradiction?”

“It is a contradiction“What we are saying is that the judiciary today has a lot of corruption, nepotism and does not represent the interests of Mexicans, except for a sector in some cases.”

“(…) Well, each one with his moral authority, because let’s see, Fobaproa, well, it is the best example of the link between economic power and political power, because it was not only a bank bailout, it was full of corruption, a debt that we are still paying.”

With information from El Universal

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