The president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed that he will pardon corrupt people who have not initiated judicial processes, since his government will not get bogged down chasing presumed corrupt people.
“Yes, it’s a forgiveness, it’s a pardon, like that. That is what is being proposed, to tell the people of Mexico: final point, to end tragic history, horrific corruption and impunity, to end the anti-popular, sell-out policy and to start a new stage and to start a new history,” he said.
In an interview with the media after bringing a floral offering to Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez, López Obrador explained that his plan is that he made his government state that “there is no forgiveness for any corrupt person”.
“That nobody is forgiven anymore and that the president can be judged if he is corrupt, his officials, his family and that corruption is banished forever,” he said.
This after clarifying that all judicial processes that are in progress can not be stopped, because the Judicial and Legislative Powers are independent.
“I am not a cacique, I do not aspire to be a dictator, I am a democrat. So, it is not to give the order to the judiciary or the legislature, which are independent, to stop processes that have been initiated for corruption offenses, everything that is in progress has to be concluded and the competent authority has to do so,” he explained.
The president-elect said that in his government they will not bet on persecution.
“What I have been saying is that revenge is not my forte and that I do not think it is good for the country that we get bogged down in persecuting corrupt suspects. Yes, it will be operated for that reason, if we are honest, we would have to start with the ones above and not only those now, but some time ago,” he said.
He explained that the crisis in Mexico is not of the past month, nor of this sexennium, because it has endured for a period like the “porfiriato,” of 36 years, that is imposing the neoliberal policy.
Source: Punto Medio
