The national leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Ariadna Montiel, will go to the Chamber of Deputies next Thursday at 10:00 a.m. to request the creation of a special commission to investigate alleged fraud in the 2006 presidential election.
She will be received in the "Aurora Jiménez" auditorium by the parliamentary groups of said political party and the Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM).
This request stems from a recent statement made by former Mexican President Vicente Fox (2000-2006), who asserted that he intervened in the 2006 election in favor of the National Action Party (PAN) candidate, Felipe Calderón, who ultimately won the presidency with a minimal margin.
"Investigate what President Fox has said; our first proof is his statements, which are clearer than ever today, but throughout these 20 years, he has admitted it; and we also have some clear elements, such as the book by (Luis) Carlos Ugalde or his own statements, where he claims that he became president of the IFE at that time, with the support of Elba Esther Gordillo, and that she was the one who was pressuring, along with President Fox, at that time, for the results to change," she commented.
Furthermore, she announced that she will file a complaint with the National Electoral Institute (INE) with the same objective.
Vicente Fox declares that he intervened in the 2006 election
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The national leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Ariadna Montiel, will go to the Chamber of Deputies next Thursday at 10:00 AM to request the creation of a special commission to investigate alleged fraud in the 2006 presidential election. She will be received in the "Aurora Jiménez" auditorium by the parliamentary groups of said political party and the Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM). This request stems from a recent statement made by former Mexican President Vicente Fox (2000-2006), who asserted that he intervened in the 2006 election in favor of the National Action Party (PAN) candidate, Felipe Calderón, who ultimately won the presidency with a narrow margin.
"Investigate what President Fox has said; our first proof is his statements, today clearer than ever, but throughout these 20 years, he has admitted it; and we also have some clear elements, such as the book by (Luis) Carlos Ugalde or his statements, where he claims he became president of the IFE at that time, with the support of Elba Esther Gordillo, and that she was the one who pressured, along with President Fox at that time, for the results to change," she commented. Furthermore, she announced that she will file a complaint with the National Electoral Institute (INE) with the same objective.
On November 3, in an interview with the Spanish media outlet The Objective, the former federal official declared that he had intervened in the electoral process that would define his successor in the presidency of Mexico. "In 2006, the next election comes, Calderón wins, or I can say it here, I made Calderón win, although it is not very democratic to say that, but I told myself that the succession in the country should remain in the hands of my political party; I even said publicly that I would not hand over power except to an elected PAN president; if it had been another party, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, I would not have handed over the presidential sash," he expressed.