Mexico.- The journalist Carlos Loret de Mola warned that if Julio Scherer sinks, President AMLO sinks with himsince he was not only his legal adviser at the National Palace, but also served as his right arm for many years.
In his opinion column published this Wednesday, March 2, 2022, Loret de Mola stated that “there is no political way out” for the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador if Julio Scherer is prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
“In several recent columns I presented the argument that if Julio Scherer sinks, Andrés Manuel López Obrador sinks with him. I am convinced that there is no possible political solution for the President of Mexico if his former legal adviser ends up prosecuted,” he commented. Loret on AMLO and Julio Scherer.
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The columnist recalled that Scherer was AMLO’s trusted lawyer and even raised money for his campaigns presidential elections and became his Secretary of the Interior (Segob) “de facto”, since the president gave the go-ahead to all his actions.
“Of all the activities carried out from his office in the National Palace, the President was aware of and endorsed them,” he stressed.
The strong bond between President López Obrador and his former legal adviser was exhibited when AMLO spoke a few words of farewell to Scherer before he left the National Palace.
Loret de Mola recalled that on that occasion AMLO stated that “Julio is like my brother, he has helped us a lot, he is part of the transformation process“, while Scherer “listened to him with tears of emotion”.
“Because of that personal brotherhood and that joint political operation, it is impossible to separate the actions of one and the other. The destinies of Julio Scherer and Andrés Manuel López Obrador are tied: if one falls, the other falls“explained the journalist.
However, the Latinus host added that the fates of Julio Scherer and claudia sheinbaumas AMLO’s former legal adviser is now hell-bent on making the head of government of Mexico City president in 2024.
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According to Loret de Mola, the closeness of Julio Scherer with AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum would explain why the head of the Segob, Adán Augusto López, managed to agree with the prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero that FGR would prosecute “all the lawyers close to Scherer, but not him”.
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