Gabriel Quadri proposed to resume construction of NAIM in 2024: “It will be national pride”

After the opening of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) on March 21, the issue remains on everyone's lips, mainly because of the comments of hundreds of people against the project and the way it unfolded.

Among the thousands of comments, videos and images of street vendors, the lack of water in the bathrooms, as well as the few establishments within the place, not counting the design of the facilities, which has resulted in it being classified as an “airplane power plant” or “trucker”.

There were other comments complaining about informal vendors, such as the viralization of the tlayudas vendor at the airport, alluding that it was a” popular market” instead of a “first world” international airport.

These comments aroused the indignation of hundreds of people on social networks over the classism of several of the retractors. Others compared AIFA's design with models and images of Mexico's New International Airport (NAIM), which was to be built on Lake Texcoco.

Among them was Deputy Gabriel Quadri. The legislator for the National Action Party (PAN) uncovered himself as one of the candidates for the presidential elections of 2024 in early March, and assured that as a candidate for the contest, he will resume with the construction of NAIM.

It should be noted that the deputy had already made public his plan to rebuild the airport on March 20. In a video shared on his official Twitter account, he commented that the reconstruction of NAIM was one of the main steps in carrying out “national reconstruction”: “it will be national pride and a factor of competitiveness” compared to that of Saint Lucia, which he described as “mainstream, mediocre, peripheral and marginal”.

In the same way, he was against the government's decision by the decree that declared the area of Lake Texcoco a Natural Protected Area this Tuesday, March 22.

“Cynical mockery of López by declaring as a Protected Natural Area to the glass of Texcoco. It's a wasteland, totally altered. It does this to try to prevent the resumption of NAIM in 2024. A simple presidential decree would reverse it...”

Along with his angry message, he shared an alleged video of the place published by the writer Rubén Cortés, who commented that the place declared as a Protected Natural Area, seemed more like a “lunar landscape” because in it “Not a fish swims, no duck flies: it is not a lake”.

For this reason, moments later he mentioned that if he won the presidency he would seek to reverse the decree, since he considered it a “cynical mockery” of Andrés Manuel López Obrador: “Decreing Texcoco, a smelly puddle, as a Protected Natural Area, is a perverse derision against biodiversity conservation. We are going to reverse that decree in 2024...”, wrote the federal deputy.

It should be clarified that he was not the only politician who has positioned himself in this way, since the PAN MP, Lilly Tellez, shared on her official Twitter account that NAIM would also be rebuilt in Texcoco during 2024.

Like Quadri, he commented that in the next six-year term “that decree will be reversed. The NAIM will be a reality as soon as we get these leperos out of power. The first flight will be to Canada, as a symbol of the citizens' aspiration for a safe country, with the rule of law, education, health, prosperity and freedom,” he wrote on March 22, although he did not mention anything about his candidacy.

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