Morena announced a new consultation to denounce deputies who voted against the Electricity Reform

Mario Delgado Carrillo, leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), announced this Sunday, April 24, his intentions to hold a new “popular consultation” for citizens to decide whether to denounce the 223 opposition deputies who voted against the Electric Reform of the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for “treason of the country”.

At the end of the Festival for National Sovereignty, held this Sunday in Mexico City, Morena's president recalled when in 2014 López Obrador filed a complaint of treason against former President Enrique Peña Nieto and those responsible for approving the 2013 energy reform.

“The people of Mexico are going to decide whether we resume the denunciation made by our president in 2014 or now we file a new complaint against these 223 traitors, to take responsibility for their actions and to be accountable to the history of our country,” the politician said in the last part of the event.

Delgado Carrillo explained that the accusation could be based on article 123 of the Criminal Code, which states that any Mexican who commits acts of treason — such as subjecting it to the interests of foreign groups — could be sentenced to between 5 and 40 years in prison and be fined up to 50,000 pesos.

“We want the precedent to remain, the record before history, that we did everything in our power, to demand justice for the people of Mexico against those who betrayed them [...] What did they do when they voted for foreign companies? They betrayed Mexico,” he reiterated.

The Morenista even pointed out that since the country was the mother of all Mexicans, the opponents who voted against the Electricity Reform “did not have a mother.”

“Our mother is the homeland, they don't have a mother because they are traitors to the country [...] Let these traitors be heard loudly, the homeland is not sold, the homeland defends itself,” he said.

Regarding this new popular consultation, Delgado clarified that “We are going to review if appropriate, we are going to ask people if we want to go to this instance [...] We are going to announce it in the week what it would be like, but it would be a denunciation accompanied by the people of Mexico. We will soon announce what it would be like,” he said.

Delgado has been the target of harsh criticism as he announced that he would start a campaign to show lawmakers who voted against President López Obrador's Electric Reform.

Shortly after the Electricity Reform did not get enough votes to pass, Morena's leader Mario Delgado Carrillo announced that he will install in the squares public clotheslines of the country with photographs, names and party to which the “traitors to the homeland” belong.

“We want people to see the faces, the faces of traitors, so that we never forget who turned their backs on the people, who turned their backs on our children, who turned their backs on our grandchildren, who dishonored so many centuries of history that we have as a nation, which we have as a homeland,” he said.

According to Morenista, legislators who want to hand over control of sectors such as energy to transnationals clearly represent what a “betrayal of the homeland” is, so they should be called according to their loyalty.

“Loyalty to the country is indispensable. Our national anthem says it: 'but if I dare a strange enemy, a soldier in each son gave you'. Our life as a sovereign nation depends on the control of sectors such as energy. Giving it to foreigners is not thinking differently: it is TREASON,” the leader of the cherry party warned in a statement.

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