Epigmenio Ibarra spoke out for the march in defense of INE: “It’s good for them”

Following the second march against the electoral reform promoted by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican producer Epigmenio Ibarra acknowledged the concentration of protesters in the Zócalo of Mexico City, although he asked the disgruntled pronounce before the verdict derived from the trial against Genaro García Luna in the USA.

Through his verified Twitter account, Ibarra shared a photograph of the giant banner unfurled in the early hours of Sunday, February 26, 2023 in one of the buildings in the first tableau. It should be remembered that an image of the former Secretary of Public Security was observed on the canvas on the shield of the National Action Party (PAN) and the caption #GarcíaLunaNoSeToca.

“They focused on the Zócalo. Good for them and for them. Now that they are starting over and filling the ballot boxes because, yes, in this task they have failed. They have money, means, innumerable spokespersons but they are not right and they are silent on the complicity between Calderón and García Luna”he wrote in his verified profile of the social network @epigmenioibarra.

And it is that a few minutes before the demonstrators gathered in the Zócalo of the capital, Ibarra published a series of publications where he expressed his position. According to his words, the people did not come to defend the vote and, on the contrary, he insinuated that whoever called the march did so “based on lies” and with the intention of restoring the “narco -state”, alluding to previous federal administrations.

Although Epigmenio Ibarra defended the display of the banner with the photograph of Genaro García Luna and complained about its removal a few minutes after its placement, other participants called the act a provocation for those who attended the call. Santiago Creel was part of the group, who ensured that:

“Look. There will be many on the way. Provocations are a sign of weakness of those who do them, they want to provoke to attract attention, to distract us, but they are not going to do it, “he said. he declares.

The allusion expressed in the banner had as a reference the case of Genaro García Luna. The former Secretary of Public Security and one of the architects of the security strategy implemented during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, was designated as guilty of three counts for trafficking cocaine to the United States, as well as one for organized crime and another for misrepresentation to the authorities.

A few minutes after 9 a.m. on Sunday February 26, various protesters began to gather in the first plaza of CDMX. In addition to the García Luna banner, in the vicinity of the Zócalo, banners against the PAN were unfurled, which were taken down by some protesters.

The act brought together members of the national leadership of the PANInstitutional Revolutionary Party (AT) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), as well as businessman Claudio X. González, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, Enrique de la Madrid, Silvano Aureoles, journalist Beatriz Pagés and former SCJN minister José Ramón Cossío.

Despite the fact that, in the previous days, the The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has denied that the electoral reform affects the functioning of the INEsuch farmer as cossio They alleged in their speeches that the plan B of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, approved by the Congress of the Union, could be the prelude to electoral fraud in the 2024 elections.

So far, CDMX authorities have not released the official number of participants in the merger. Despite this, some participants such as Marko Cortés, national leader of the PAN, and Senator Kenia López Rabadán considered the presence of more than 500,000 people in the capital and presence of demonstrators in 80 other cities.