Ciro Gómez Leyva responds to AMLO: “I’m not blaming him”

MEXICO CITY.- After some statements by Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the morning conference this Wednesday, the journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva clarified to the president that he is not blaming him for the attack he suffered.

Even, offered an apology to the president “If that’s how he took it,” after yesterday he questioned the head of the Executive: “Do you shoot a friend in the head to kill him?”

“I do not have a single element that proves, a single one that proves, that the government of President López Obrador was behind the attack, but since I do not have it, I don’t know who attacked me or why.“I have to keep all possibilities open, including that one,” Gómez Leyva clarified on his morning show on Radio Fórmula.

Ciro Gómez Leyva apologizes to AMLO

“If the question, because I asked it as a question yesterday, was taken by the President of the Republic as an indication from me that I am accusing him of being responsible for the attack, I am not accusing him, and if he takes it that way, I offer an apology.because it is a public discussion,” he stressed.

Today, at his conference at the National Palace, López Obrador affirmed that his government It is not intended to take anyone’s life.

“Yesterday Ciro Gómez Leyva spoke about that I wasn’t friends with him, I made that mistake Or it was a way of expressing that I do not have enemies, I have adversaries, but I told him friend and well no, he is not my enemy, because I do not have enemies nor do I want to have them, I have adversaries and he is right, he is my adversary,” he expressed.

What did Lopez Obrador say about Ciro Gomez Leyva?

“He is a friend of Felipe Calderón, of García Luna, of Manlio Fabio Beltrones, but he dares to say that I am not his friend because they wanted to kill him and he leaves an insinuation that a friend does not do that, so I just want to clarify to Ciro that In no way do we intend to take his life to no one, to no person, to calm down, to relax (…)”.

“I have not insulted him“The only thing I have done is point him out as a journalist at the service of the oligarchy,” said the president.

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