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PAN Mexico City files complaint against ‘Andy’ López Beltrán over alleged early campaigning

From El Universal · () Spanish

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

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  • Mexico City’s PAN leadership filed a complaint with the National Electoral Institute’s Fiscal Oversight Unit against Andrés Manuel López Beltrán over alleged early campaign activities.
  • The party asked the institute to investigate his social media, financing, spending and territorial activities, including newspaper distribution and visits in Tabasco.
  • PAN officials also requested that any responsibility involving López Beltrán or Morena be determined and that the reported expenses be audited and counted.

Mexico City’s PAN has filed another complaint against Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, accusing him of carrying out electoral activities before the campaign period and demanding an investigation into the money behind them.

Grotesque and vulgar is the way Andy López Beltrán has been violating electoral rules.

· Luisa GutiérrezThe PAN Mexico City leader criticized the alleged early campaign activities.

Local PAN leader Luisa Gutiérrez described López Beltrán’s alleged conduct as “grotesque and vulgar.” She said he had been distributing newspapers in Tabasco, a place where, in her account, he had never carried out political work, did not live and was known mainly as the son of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Gutiérrez urged the National Electoral Institute to follow up not only on the new complaint but also on earlier filings. She asked officials to examine López Beltrán’s social media accounts, financing and spending methods. PAN Mexico City lawmaker and spokesman Federico Döring called on INE President Guadalupe Taddei to enforce the law against what he labeled “the leader of fiscal fuel theft who wants to become a deputy for Tabasco.”

The leader of fiscal fuel theft who wants to become a deputy for Tabasco.

· Federico DöringThe PAN Mexico City spokesman urged the INE president to enforce the law.

Döring alleged that López Beltrán wants to run for the Chamber of Deputies in Tabasco’s sixth district and said the institute should quantify and audit the activities because they could affect equal conditions for other contenders and parties. Víctor Hugo Sondón, the PAN representative before the INE, said the new filing expands previous complaints and accused López Beltrán of systematically altering electoral rules. He said the electoral period begins the following Thursday and called the reported activities “pre-pre-pre-pre-campaign” acts.

Pre-pre-pre-pre-campaign acts.

· Víctor Hugo SondónThe PAN representative before the INE described the alleged activities before the electoral period.

The complaint asks the INE to certify publications, photographs, videos and other evidence; investigate the activities’ systematic nature, territorial reach and electoral purpose; and determine the origin and amount of the resources used. It also asks the institute to audit and record the expenses if appropriate. Priscila Vera of PAN’s national executive committee requested an investigation into the possible responsibility of López Beltrán and Morena in financing what she called the “welfare fuel-theft campaign.”

Welfare fuel-theft campaign.

· Priscila VeraThe PAN national executive committee member referred to the alleged financing of López Beltrán’s activities.
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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.

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