Will Morena fight against bribes?
They just got back from a long weekend and Morena 's federal lawmakers, led by Mario Delgado , scheduled meeting with mayors from the State of Mexico, Yucatán, and Puebla . What do you think is the most relevant topic this year? Of course, the 2019 budget, which has to be approved by Congress . We've been told that the mayors have brought several local projects with them. This way, once the reforms of the Public Administration Organic Law will accelerate budget times and then we will see if the “ moches ” ( bribes ) really disappear and the legislators don't consider the idea of driving their states and municipalities in exchange of political or economic “incentives”. In this regard, the Fourth Transformation will be put to the test.
Yeidckol lines up her lawmakers
By the way, we've been told that Morena 's national president, Yeidckol Polevnsky, is holding private meetings with the bench coordinators in local Congresses to inform them about the legislative priorities. That, we've been told, in regards to the initiatives that have been driven by the President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador , mainly the ones in regards to austerity. Mrs. Yeidckol 's idea is that every bench lines up and support the initiatives proposed in Congress .
Videgaray, the diplomat
Chancellor Luis Videgara
y said that he is retiring from the political scene after this presidency ends. If he hadn't announced this back in October, anyone could think that he is looking for a position in the next administration. “The NFL announced that it's returning to Mexico in 2019. That's good news, which took place thanks to the President-elect 's timely intervention, who met with the NFL' s commissioner, Roger Goodel l, this morning. Congratulations to both for reaching a good agreement,” the chancellor wrote in his Twitter account. At the end of the day, Videgaray , who arrived into his current position in January 2017 saying he was still learning, made it clear that he's really good in diplomacy after almost two years in the position.
A stone among the beans?
Although the new government is being careful of not being joined by high-ranking officials close to current secretaries of state, we've been told that in the case of the transition team led by Víctor Villalobos , the incoming M inister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development , they positioned a public servant identified as close to the current Minister, Baltazar Hinojosa. We're talking about Héctor Riemann Valenzuela , who worked as the General Coordinator of Commercialization in Aserca , that were allegedly part of the “ bean fraud ”, which amounted to MXN $126 million. Didn't Víctor Villalobos see the stone among the beans?
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