Morena’s virtual candidate in the 2024 elections, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to her future opponent, Senator Xóchitl Gálvezafter he involved her in the controversy related to her “red house.”
Gálvez accused Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday, September 14, of having raised the issue of her house at the hands of her campaign team, for which he would have sent his employee, Víctor Hugo Romowho was also former mayor of Miguel Hidalgo, to “attack” her.
“Do you really agree that they demolish my house and those of my neighbors?… Do you think that this really helps you, that it is worth doing it?”He questioned Sheinbaum.
The representative of the Frente Amplio por México also asked him the question about If that was the way she was going to treat those who thought differently than herwhich he considered authoritarianism and abuse of power.
Sheinbaum responded to the questions this morning, and aligned with the president’s statements Andrés Manuel López Obradordisapproved of the proposal made by members of his party to demolish the property, although he clarified that he supports the complaints about real estate corruption.
“I am in favor of building houses, not demolishing them, like I did in Mexico City. I am also in favor of denouncing real estate corruption, as I did in Mexico City. The house that worries me and occupies is everyone’s house,” he published on his X account.
A day earlier, the Chief Executive expressed his opposition to the measure during his press conference and asked to maintain a relationship of “adversaries to defeat,” but not “enemies to destroy.”
What is the controversy with Xóchitl Gálvez’s house?
Victor Hugo Romomayor of Miguel Hidalgo from 2018 to 2021, and who entered the government after Xóchitl Gálvez accused the now candidate for the Presidency of corruption for acquiring her house through illegalitiessince supposedly When she was mayor she gave permission for the construction of a complex which is currently worth 75 million pesos.
In 2020 he accused that the authorities They denied authorization to use and occupy the house which would also have been built with a company that hired the services of High Tech Services, a company that Gálvez owns.
Given this accusation, the Morena organization in Mexico City demanded that the current mayor of Miguel Hidalgo, Mauricio Tabe, close the house of Xóchitl Gálvez and, if necessary, demolish it.
Tabe responded to the accusations and said that there is no illegality, and that everything is an invention of the ruling party, mainly the president. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to derail Gálvez’s career.
“The president is panicked with Xochitl Galvez, that’s why he doesn’t stop attacking her. He sleeps and dreams thinking about her, about how to derail her. And that’s why he orders all of her girls to invent a series of lies. He now he sent the fake who ruled here to invent acts of corruption”Tabe said.
In addition, he pointed out that the house that Morena denounces was built while Romo was mayor of Miguel Hidalgo, not Gálvez, and that This whole situation is a farce and a setup. in order to continue the offensive against the opposition’s presidential candidate.
