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05/05/2020 |09:43
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Is Irma Eréndira different from Virgilio Andrade?

The credibility of the federal government rests on the hands of Irma Eréndira Sandoval . The Public Administration Minister will be in charge of making a difference with the Peña Nieto administration when the Public Administration Ministry covered several corruption cases. During the previous administration, Virgilio Andrade was set to investigate Enrique Peña Nieto for corruption acts and conflicts of interest, as well as Finance Minister Luis Videgaray . In the end, Andrade exonerated both. In the case of Irma Eréndira, she exonerated CFE director Manuel Bartlett . Now, she will investigate León Bartlett, Manuel Bartlett’s son, after he received the direct adjudication of contracts for the purchase of ventilators .

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