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Lawmaker purchases several raffle tickets

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The lawmaker got the tickets days before they went on sale - Photo: Ivan Stephens/EL UNIVERSAL
10/03/2020 |14:32
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Lawmaker purchases several raffle tickets

We’ve been told that since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced his government would start selling the tickets to raffle the presidential plane today, one day after a women’s strike, there are people who already had several tickets days before. We’ve been told that a PVEM lawmaker, Ricardo Gallardo , already has several raffle tickets . We’ve been told that the lawmaker showed off the tickets on social media and said he’s ready for the raffle of “the presidential plane,” although in reality, the government will raffle 100 prizes for MXN $20 million each.

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