PRI Files Lawsuit Against PAN, MP Magali Marlene Juarez - Rumbo de Mexico
go to original July 21, 2012

MEXICO CITY – National Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) leaders filed a lawsuit with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) this week, and demanded an investigation into the Progressive Movement (MP) and National Action Party’s (PAN) money laundering accusations against their party. The PRI called for those who “have irresponsibly made lies an instrument of political propaganda” to be punished.

Party head Pedro Joaquín Coldwell said that the PRI did not use money from illicit sources to fund Peña Nieto’s presidential campaign, and denied that the party exceeded campaign spending limits.

After the leftist coalition and the PAN repeated their accusations of money laundering, the PRI’s legal team filed their lawsuit with the PGR, demanding that Attorney General Marisela Morales conduct an investigation to clear up the matter.

Jesús Murillo Karam, head of the legal team in charge of defending president-elect Peña Nieto, said that the whole thing was a “show” put on by the PRI’s political opponents. The PRI, he added, has nothing to hide, and wants to put an end to all of the speculation.

Joaquín Coldwell called his PAN counterpart Gustavo Madero’s joining the chorus of mostly leftist voices making accusations against the PRI worrying, but said that the two fronts were far from unified as the PAN has not called for the election to be annulled.

Raúl Cervantes, a PRI lawyer, said that the document the PRI filed with the PGR is the same they gave to the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) and the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) – a defense against accusations of exceeding campaign spending limits.

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