Benito Jiménez and Guadalupe Irízar/Agencia Reforma
Friday, February 17, 2023 | 10:49
Mexico City.- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that the law that raises fines for insults against him, whose opinion was approved by Morena and allies in the Chamber of Deputies, will be repealed.
“I already found out that it was a deputy from Morena who proposed the increase in the fine for those who insult the President and she did it without bad intentions, but that law, what must be done with that law is to eliminate it,” he said. in his morning conference from Hermosillo, Sonora.
The proposal was made by the Zacatecan deputy Benelli Jocaneth Hernández Ruedas, close to Senator Ricardo Monreal, who has already rejected its approval, as has Ignacio Mier, coordinator of the Morenista bench in San Lázaro.
The Chief of the Federal Executive recalled that Francisco I. Madero was imprisoned under this law and a similar provision was considered in 1968, against opponents of the Government of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
“That’s why they put Madero in jail, the first time, for insulting the authority and what happened in 1968 also had to do with that, that is, we are going to repeal it,” he insisted.
“In addition, it is also reported that it was left in commissions, but it did not go to plenary, but it is not something that has to do with us.”
Although he said that there is a right to criticize his Administration, the President emphasized that he is not asking to be insulted. “Of course I am not asking to be insulted, but we are not going to prosecute anyone for that, nothing, there is a right to criticize,” he said.
