López Obrador indicated that he will request an investigation be opened against the judges who attend to the affairs of the energy sector
There is possible complicity with individuals, said the president
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will request an investigation of the judges who deal with the affairs of the energy sector, suspecting possible complicity with individuals.
“These judges emerge when the electricity reform is carried out to protect private and foreign companies, not to protect the national interest.”
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— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) March 12, 2021
“We are going to go to the Supreme Court and we want the Judiciary of the Judiciary to review the behavior of these judges because it would be the last straw for the country’s Judicial Power to be at the service of individuals,” he said at a press conference.
After a federal judge provisionally suspended the effects of the reforms to the Electricity Industry Law that weighs the Federal Electricity Commission for its strengthening, the president warned:
“We will defend this matter.”
He revealed that I have even told the manager of Iberdrola – the Spanish capital company in this sector – that his government is open to dialogue, negotiation.
However, the president indicated, we need to review those contracts that are exceeded.
“We are not canceling the energy reform, but rather removing the sharpest edges, what hurts the most, and that companies can continue doing business but with reasonable profits.
“That they do not come to steal, that they go to steal further.”
“Then we will be defending this point,” he stressed.
When asked about Judge Juan Pablo Gomez Fierro’s order to grant provisional suspension to two amparos, the president replied:
“The owners of foreign companies and also some Mexicans are very upset about the electricity reform, but the truth is that they were abusing electricity by selling expensive electricity, receiving a subsidy.”
“They were benefited with leonine contracts, an agreement that is made with an authority that does not legitimately represent the people, that does not defend the national interest, that, of course, has powers and what it does may be legal but acts as an employee, as a subordinate of private companies, and form agreements in which the treasury loses. “
The example, clearer and more shameful, humiliating – he said – is Iberdrola, a Spaniard, who is a “gangster” way takes his company to work with the Secretary of Energy of the federal government.
Not only that – he added – he takes President (Felipe) Calderón to his board of directors.
“I mean, how, it is a lack of respect for the people of Mexico, it is a shame, in what country of the world these things happen!”
“For this reason, the Iberdrola gentlemen felt they were the owners of the national electricity industry, with juicy contracts at the expense of the treasury because those contracts mean paying more for electricity,” he said.
He took advantage of the issue to answer some lawyers who said in New York that the president of Mexico had threatened them by quoting President Lázaro Cardenas a phrase according to which those who deliver natural resources are traitors to the country.
“They felt threatened; there is no threat, ”he said.
#ConferenciaPresidente. Reitera @lopezobrador_ la frase del general Lázaro Cárdenas: quien entrega los energéticos a industrias extranjeras es traidor a la patria. pic.twitter.com/vlwD2TKCQQ
— Jenaro Villamil (@jenarovillamil) March 12, 2021
Source: vanguardia.com.mx
