Panal's Quadri Urges to Stop 'Dirty War' Ivonne Reyes Campos - Rumbo de Mexico
go to original April 12, 2012

New Alliance Party (Panal) presidential candidate Gabriel Quadri (The News)

MEXICO CITY – New Alliance Party (Panal) presidential candidate Gabriel Quadri called on his competitors Enrique Peña Nieto and Josefina Vázquez Mota to put aside their “dirty war,” so that the electoral campaigns are not stained and sullied.

At a meeting with Panal legislators at the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, Quadri promised to keep his hands clean. “They’re over there (referring to the other candidates), and (as well) the image they want to present to their potential voters. We already said it, and I already said it: I’ll never participate in these mud-slinging wars, I’ll never discredit any of the candidates. Over there, they keep on poisoning the political environment in the country, and they keep on attacking, they keep on encouraging this negative image of politicians. Over there, they keep on debasing Mexican politics. They are shooting democracy, and themselves, in the foot,” he said.

Quadri said that he will suggest that the electoral authorities favor proposals on issues of national importance in the debates in which the four presidential candidates will participate in the coming days.

In a press conference, the Panal candidate said that he is in favor of keeping the Opportunities program in place, but improving it, making it broader and more transparent so that it can benefit a larger number of Mexicans.

He also said that he is in favor of getting rid of subsidies for fossil fuels, and directly allocating the funds gained to anti-poverty programs and the Popular Insurance, among others.

His and his party’s platform, he said, maintains that the only ways to end poverty in the long term are economic growth and productivity, which can only be achieved through quality education that makes workers more productive; “A worker with a good education is more productive, and therefore is going to earn more,” he said.

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