(EFE). President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused this Sunday the Judiciary of “being rotten” and having an “ultra-conservative mentality” in the face of the protections that slow down its infrastructure works.
“Unfortunately the judiciary is rotten, there are honorable expressions not to generalize, but judges, magistrates, ministers, are at the service of vested interest groups and have a very conservative, ultra-conservative mentality,” he said.
The president made these statements on a tour in the northern region of La Laguna, in the states of Coahuila and Durango, where his government intends to build a work to make water drinkable and distribute it to nine municipalities.
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But the project, called “Healthy Water for La Laguna”, is being stopped by the opposition of environmentalists and inhabitants of the region, who have filed appeals to stop construction.
“If the protection has already started, then we will not be able to finish the work. Do you think that I am going to trust the Judiciary? I’m not sucking my thumb, ”complained the president.
This is not the first attack against the President’s Judicial Power, who has previously questioned the “corrupt” magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF).
In particular, the president has criticized judges who endorse amparos against his works, such as the Mayan Train in the southeast of the country, or his policies, such as the reform of the Electricity Industry Law, which affects private companies.
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“If we had a reliable Judicial Power, I would say no problem, we go to litigation, we are going to show that there are no affectations, but no. We get into it, we get trapped, they present us a complaint and then another, and another, and another, “he said this Sunday.
The president also criticized his predecessor governments for inheriting unfinished works, such as the Mexico-Toluca Train, which will connect the State of Mexico with the country’s capital.
“Before what mattered was money, the ‘moche’, bribery, what the construction companies gave to obtain those contracts, they did not care about the people, they did not care that a social or environmental conflict was generated,” he said.
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