The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, condemned the burning of a paper figure with the face of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Norma Lucía Piña, which occurred last Saturday during her commemorative speech for the Oil Expropriation in the Zócalo of Mexico City.
“This type of act should not be carried out, it is not the best, I think there are ways to protest without going to those extremes, this is what I think,” said the president during his morning press conference, in which he was asked about the issue.
Images of López Obrador supporters circulating in various media and on social networks setting fire to an effigy with the minister’s face, which was caricatured with a toga and a bag of money.
Since she was elected president of the country’s highest court of justice in January, López Obrador has launched various criticisms of Norma Lucía Piñafrom ensuring that the judiciary frees criminals to affirming that she is in charge of the SCJN “thanks to him”.
The president condemned the events of Saturday and said that “we must see ourselves as adversaries, not as enemies (…) the conservatives see us as enemies to destroy, not as adversaries to defeat.”
“Of course they are very minority expressions of our movementMost of the people are very aware that they must continue fighting peacefully and that we are doing very well,” López Obrador said.
This fact was also condemned by the minister and former president of the SCJN, Arturo Zaldívar, the day after the events.
“I condemn the manifestations of hate against the Minister President Norma Piña. Political violence is never the way. Let’s resolve our differences through dialogue, political debate and constitutional legal channels,” she said in a message on Twitter.
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