“Dirty Tactic”: Gabriel Quadri shook Morena after accusation against Margarita Zavala

Gabriel Quadri, deputy for the National Action Party (PAN), beat Moreno Regeneración Nacional (Morena) for wanting to postpone the analysis and voting of the Electric Reform with the conflict of interest charge against Margarita Zavala.

On April 17, the Chamber of Deputies is expected to define the direction that the initiative proposed and promoted by the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will take.

However, just after the session, the cherry party requested that Zavala, as a deputy of National Action, refrain from voting for allegedly being involved in a conflict of interest with her spouse and former president, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.

Given this, Quadri, through his Twitter account, disqualified the argument of the opposing party as “spurious” - this, on the understanding that the House Legal Directorate itself had ruled out the accusation against the former first lady.

This statement led to the Chamber of Deputies going into recess in such a way that the Board of Directors and Political Coordination Board formalize an opinion on the indictment against the former first lady.

This is despite the fact that the General Directorate of Legal Affairs determined that it is not possible to notice the figure of conflict of interest formulated in the accusation that the Morenista deputy, Andrea Chávez, raised this Sunday in the first minutes of the session.

“There is no conflict of interest in the participation of Deputy Zavala in the legislative process of energy reform, since the elements that make up such unlawful conduct are not configured,” the decree read.

Despite this, Morena insisted that Zavala would be involved in Calderón's relationship with Avangrid, a US subsidiary of Iberdrola - which, he said, has an active capital of $40 billion.

The party argued that this would become more relevant after the publication of a photograph in which the couple had portrayed themselves with the chairman of the company's board, published on April 08.

It should be remembered that Iberdrola is, together with Repsol and OHL, one of the companies that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly reproached for having had preference over the State itself to operate in Mexico in “neoliberal governments”.

In this regard, Calderón was hired by Avangrid as an independent director four years after the end of his term, with the aim of ensuring Iberdrola's decisions beyond what was established by the shareholders.

However, in the face of Andrés Manuel's continuous accusations, the former president clarified that he left the branch's Board of Directors in 2018, thus rejecting Tabasqueño's insinuations about possible acts of corruption.

“I categorically reject that in my relationship with global companies, I have engaged in influence trafficking, conflict of interest, let alone acts of corruption,” he published in February 2019.

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