Mario Delgado justified campaign against opposition deputies “Your salaries are paid with taxes”

Mario Delgado, leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), has been the target of harsh criticism as he announced that he would start a campaign to show legislators that they voted against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) Electricity Reform.

Faced with this, the opposition has categorized the intentions of the national leader of the cherry party as a “campaign of hate”. However, Delgado Carrillo argued that “all sessions, debates and votes are public”, so he finds no reason not to show the legislators that they reversed the Tabasqueño initiative on April 17 in the Chamber of Deputies.

“Legislators are not anonymous lobbyists, they are public servants. All sessions, debates and votes are public. Their salaries are paid from the taxes of the people they constitutionally represent and they must be held accountable. The one who owes nothing fears,” Mario Delgado wrote through his Twitter account.

However, minutes later the opposition bloc assured “it fears the people, who because of their classism and ignorance, have always despised them.”

“The treacherous right wing and its allies do not know the greatness of our people: brave, peaceful, respectful and with a dignity that their deputies greatly lacked. They are only afraid of the people who, due to their classism and ignorance, have always despised them,” added the leader of Morena on the subject.

After the setback to the Electric Reform, Delgado Carrillo and Citlalli Hernández, Morena's secretary general, reported that they will make available to citizens the names, surnames and parties to which they belong of the deputies whom they called “traitors of the homeland”.

“We want people to see the faces and names of traitors, so that we never forget who turned their backs on the people. In addition, we are going to ask our deputies to hold assemblies in which they inform Mexicans. Let them know that, if the Electricity Reform had been approved, the Constitution would already establish a cheaper tariff scheme for families, companies and for municipalities in public lighting,” explained Delgado.

Meanwhile, Hernández Mora commented that this campaign is “in defense of national sovereignty”, so public squares in the districts they represent will have “walls of ignominy.”

For their part, the deputies of the Institutional Revolutionary (PRI), the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and National Action (PAN) parties filed a complaint with the Office in Mexico of the UN High Commissioner for creating a “hate campaign” towards their legislators.

Through her social networks, the deputy of the blue and white, Mariana Gómez del Campo, reported that the legislators who make up the Coalition Going for Mexico presented a letter denouncing the hate speech that the cherry party has promoted after not voting last Sunday for the Electric Reform of the federal president.

In the message, the legislator lamented that Morena attacks opposition politicians for not having ideas to end with the ruling party, and therefore asked the United Nations Organization to intervene to stop the promotion of violence.

In addition, at a press conference in front of the Office of the High Commissioner, Gómez del Campo trusted that the complaint will be handed over to Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, since, he said, the opposition is being persecuted by President López Obrador and his supporters.

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