Civil Groups Blast Leftist Lopez Obrador Magali Marlene Juarez - Rumbo de Mexico
go to original July 29, 2012

MEXICO CITY – The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice warned that leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador is stirring up strife as part of his strategy of fomenting post-election conflict, and called for both the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) and security authorities to step in and prevent widespread conflict.

The civil association’s president, José Antonio Ortega, said on Thursday that despite the fact that the Tabascan firebrand and his cast of supporting parties – the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Labor Party (PT) and Citizens’ Movement (MC) – have not made open calls for violent or illegal action, “other players” are doing their dirty work for them.

In a press conference, he accused López Obrador of trying to make this year’s post-election conflict much worse than that of 2006, when the leftist called out his followers to stage a massive, six-month protest that crippled one of Mexico City’s main avenues, el Paseo de Reforma.

Representatives from several civil associations accompanied Ortega, who said that the leftist coalition may try to block the swearing-in ceremonies of both the new Congress and the president. At the slightest sign of new violence on the part of López Obrador or his followers, he said, the official registry of the Progressive Movement must be invalidated.

“Our demand is that if the violence that the left has been planning happens,” he said, “... the law must be applied to them, (and) their party registry must be canceled.”

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