Mario Delgado Carrillo (Photo: Screenshot)

Mario DelgadoNational Chairman of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) attacked the last three presidential administrations, assuring that in terms of social programs in favor of vulnerable people, there were no positive results.

He remembers that when he started alternating with Vicente Renard Quesada (2000-2006) of the National Action Party (PAN), there was no social support, as he considered this would lead the country to economic collapse.

“Promising pensions or support for the elderly is to bankrupt the country and our economy. This was Vicente Fox’s argument in 2004, which explains the neoliberal vision; the state was at the service of corrupt elites and it was to be expected that the budget allocated to social programs would not be a priority,” said Mario Delgado in his video column published in Millennium.

This emerges from the remarks made recently by the former president of the PAN, in which he underlined that he was responsible for elderly people’s pensions. Because of this comment, several people harassed him, showing him that he was not the one who promoted them.

Vicente Fox (DARK ROOM)
Vicente Fox (DARK ROOM)

The person in charge of pensions for this sector of the population was the current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Initially, he promoted it in the then Federal District (DF), when he was head of government, and it was officially published in the capital’s Gaceta in November 2003; after assuming the presidency promoted it at the federal level.

He went on to point out that during the six-year term of Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, which was from 2006 to 2012, support for social programs grew miserably, leaving thousands of people unable to access them.

Finally, in the period from 2012 to 2018, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party returned (AT) stupid Enrique Pena Nieto, He said there was a considerable reduction in support for the Mexicans.

“With Felipe Calderón, the budget for social programs barely increased by 13% and in the Peña Nieto administration it decreased in real terms by 17%,” he said.

Former President Enrique Peña Nieto (File)
Former President Enrique Peña Nieto (File)

On the other hand, he pointed out that with the administration of President López Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), THE social programs increased considerably in favor of the people of the country.

He said that it was only in the first five years of the Fourth Transformation (4T) that the allocated budget doubled in real terms, compared to the start of the six-year term.

The morenista said that in the last year the social program that has seen the greatest increase is theretirement for the elderly that from this 2023 they will receive more money in their Welfare Bank accounts.

Seniors (file)
Seniors (file)

This program is for adults over 68 across the country and to adults over the age of 65 who live in municipalities owned by indigenous peoples. “The pension for the well-being of the elderly consists of economic support of 4,800 pesos every two months.”

It was on May 8, 2020 that the reform decree was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), in which was added Article 4 of the Constitution, which raised the right to a pension to constitutional status.

It should be remembered that Felipe Calderón allegedly said something similar to his predecessor, Vicente Fox, about pensions for the elderly during his six-year term. assured that “The pension for the elderly is not viable.”

Other social supports are the “Benito Juárez” welfare scholarships, the welfare pension program for people with disabilities, the Sembrando Vida program and the Tandas welfare program.

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