DistantNews
Support us
PAN Announces Nationwide Assemblies to Challenge Sheinbaum’s Second Report Image: Fernanda Rojas/EL UNIVERSAL
🇲🇽 Mexico /Elections & Politics

PAN Announces Nationwide Assemblies to Challenge Sheinbaum’s Second Report

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Named sources New plan
  • Mexico’s National Action Party announced information assemblies across the country to contrast President Claudia Sheinbaum’s second government report with official figures.
  • PAN lawmakers accused the government of failing to deliver investment, jobs, security and the rule of law, and criticized its handling of the North American trade agreement review.
  • The party said national averages obscure poverty and informality in southern states such as Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero.

Mexico’s National Action Party plans to take its challenge to President Claudia Sheinbaum’s second government report across the country. The PAN parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies said it would hold information assemblies in all 31 state capitals and Mexico City.

Deputy Genoveva Huerta said the events would tell people that Sheinbaum and Morena had failed to deliver during what the PAN described as eight years of government under former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Sheinbaum. She argued that foreign investment figures reflected reinvestment rather than new capital, saying foreign investors no longer viewed Mexico with the same strength and appeal.

Huerta linked that situation to insecurity, corruption and a lack of the rule of law. She also criticized what she called the government’s failure in reviewing the trade agreement with the United States and Canada.

Showing national averages serves to hide the fact that informality and poverty hurt most in the south. A figure on the Palace blackboard does not change what a family in Chiapas, Oaxaca or Guerrero experiences.

— Ernesto SánchezThe PAN lawmaker criticized the government’s presentation of economic and social conditions.

Deputy Ernesto Sánchez said the government’s claims of well-being had not reached families or the streets. He argued that projects such as the Maya Train, Dos Bocas refinery and Interoceanic Corridor had involved spending without producing enough development, formal jobs, adequate wages, security or rule of law.

“Showing national averages serves to hide the fact that informality and poverty hurt most in the south. A figure on the Palace blackboard does not change what a family in Chiapas, Oaxaca or Guerrero experiences,” Sánchez said. He added that Mexico needed better government rather than a better narrative.

The PAN also criticized cuts to consulates that protect Mexicans abroad and said uncertainty over the trade agreement review was discouraging new investment, particularly in southern Mexico. Sánchez challenged the governing party to put its figures on the table for voters to judge.

Mexico does not need a better narrative, it needs better government.

— Ernesto SánchezSánchez summed up the opposition’s criticism of Sheinbaum’s report.
About this summary

Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

More Stories

From Our Blog