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The President and PAN governors quarrel over the Insabi

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05/02/2020 |11:01
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The President and PAN governors quarrel over the Insabi

A week of negotiations between the federal government and and their local Health Ministers in order for the state governments to join the Insabi have suddenly ended. We’ve been told that PAN governors had reached an initial agreement with Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez , the Health Undersecretary . Nevertheless, the governors were met with a warning from President López Obrador : they join the program or not as the PAN members argue that the President refused to recognize the initial agreement and basically told them that the government official doesn’t know much about politics .

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