Political Harakiri: Roberto Madrazo was shunned for criticizing the PRI of the 70s, when he was a federal deputy

The former president of the PRI took his own party as a point of reference for political illegality at a time when he held a position of public representation

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QUERÉTARO, QUERÉTARO, 04MARZO2011.- Carlos Ramírez
QUERÉTARO, QUERÉTARO, 04MARZO2011.- Carlos Ramírez Marín, Presidente de la Mesa Directiva de la Cámara de Diputados, acudió a la toma de protesta de nuevo presidente del CEN del PRI en el centro de convenciones de Queretaro. Dicho acto se llevo acabo en el marco del 82 aniversario y sesión ordinaria del Partido Revolucionario Institucional. FOTO: SAÚL LÓPEZ/CUARTOSCURO.COM

The expression “shot in the foot” is used in Mexican slang to refer to when an individual performs an action that, unintentionally, also harms him in some way. For Roberto Madrazo, AMLO's oldest rival, criticized Claudia Sheinbaum, the head of government of Mexico City; however, his reference point for condemning the violation of the law was the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 1970s, when he was a member of that party and, as if this was not enough, he held a position of popular representation.

Through social networks, this Thursday, April 7, the former governor of Tabasco condemned the rally at the Monument to the Revolution that aimed to promote the Electric Reform, but which ended up being a platform to promote the Revocation of Mandate, in this regard, the historic member of the PRI wrote in his official account of Twitter:

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Given this, hundreds of users of this digital platform reminded him that he is part of the PRI and that, in case he forgot, he acted as federal deputy precisely in the period he criticizes, so that disqualifications and ridicule were present from different angles.

The story of Roberto Madrazo Pintado with the PRI could even be considered a genetic inheritance, since Carlos Alberto Madrazo Becerra, his father, was president of the tricolor between 1964 and 1965. Likewise, and under the banner of that organization, he was governor of Tabasco (like his son in the 90s) from 1959 to 1964. So the young Roberto Madrazo, who was born in 1952, was steeped in Priism in his hegemonic years since he was born and it was in the 1970s that he joined this party and won his first position of popular representation thanks to the PRI.

Particularly in that decade, Madrazo Pintado was a local deputy for Tabasco District 2 (from September 1, 1976 to August 31, 1979), as a result, critics of the PRI regime mocked the irony implicit in the PRI's tweet. For example, journalist Álvaro Delgado (El Yunque and The Army of God) noted that Felipe Calderón, former president of Mexico (2006-2012) retweeted this statement.

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In addition, numerous Twitter users expressed their sympathy for the 4T administration and told the former PRI legislator things like “This criminal talking about breaking the law with what face does he dare? Have you forgotten what you did in the Berlin Marathon, Mr. Madrazo? Have you forgotten that you belong to the worst party in the history of Mexico? Are you talking about carrying and using public power and resources? ” or “The PRI of the 70's, 80's and 90's and this millennium, which used the entire apparatus of the state to favor its candidates, and in which you proudly participated, miserable. But times have changed. If they gave the prize for the cynic of the year, you would have no competition.”

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