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Magistrate wanted to spend $1 million on trip to Germany

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03/09/2019 |09:34
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Magistrate wanted to spend $1 million on a trip to Germany

Electoral magistrate Reyes Rodríguez Mondrag

ón showed zero political sensibility in the face of the government's intention of maintaining republican austerity as he planned to take 13 guests to a seminar in Germany . We've been told that despite the measures and messages about expenditure control the Electoral Tribunal is trying to send, magistrate Reyes wanted to invite academics , business leaders , and a former PAN senator to the seminar titled “ Democracy and Elections in Latin America ,” organized by the Max Planck Institute . We've been told that the trip would have cost over MXN $1 million for an event that can take place in the Tribunal's offices in Mexico City . Nevertheless, we've been told that magistrate Felipe Fuentes , the president of the electoral tribunal and the head of the Administration Board , dismissed Reyes' request, who had the intention of perpetuating electoral tourism, a practice criticized by the current administration.

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