Mexico.- The PRD presented a complaint against Adán Augusto López before the National Electoral Institute (INE) for the videos where Mexican soccer players send him messages of support.
The representative of the PRD before the INE, Angel Avilaaccuses the Secretary of the Interior (Segob) of having promoted the promotion in your favor with payments to the footballers Giovanni Dos Santos, Miguel Layún and Braulio Lunawho sent him messages of support through videos on TikTok.
“Yesterday we filed a complaint against the Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López for benefiting from the figure of public figures in their capacity as soccer players who systematically publish videos “greeting” the Secretary of the Interior,” the PRD member announced. On twitter.
He pointed out that Adán Augusto López asked to stop promoting in his favor in the face of the controversy, but he did not deny himself that he had planned or paid for the messages from the soccer players.
“That authority must take into account that the messages were issued on the same date, in the same manner and placecannot be considered as a mere expression of opinions protected by freedom of expression, given the elements that allow us to conclude that it is a structured campaign,” said the PRD member in the complaint.
Ávila considered that the videos in favor of the head of Segob are clearly in violation of the Constitution, so the PRD requires the INE to investigate whether Morena’s “corcholata” contracted the services of athletes to generate undue propaganda.
“It is inferred that it is possible that the Secretary of the Interior has hired said public persons in their capacity as soccer players to generate undue propaganda (…) This authority must investigate whether the Secretary of the Interior hired the services of the soccer players to generate promotion with purposes of the 2023-2024 federal electoral process,” the complaint states.
The PRD representative before the INE warned that there are already jurisprudence in which it was determined that an official asked characters for their support, which implies the improper use of public resources.
In this regard, he recalled that the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) has indicated in various judgments that the Officials must not carry out undue promotion of their figure heading to 2024 election.
“(It is requested) that it be ordered to avoid displaying behaviors similar to those denounced, seeking to avoid generating behaviors that due to their systematic nature are anticipated campaign acts,” remarked the PRD member.
It should be remembered that Adán Augusto came out in defense of the footballers who sent him messages of support on social networks, regretting the “unfair attacks” against him and clarifying that “this is not the time” for this type of action.
“I’m sorry for the unfair attacks that players have received for having greeted me on the networks, which was surely from people who want to help me, and as I already mentioned, this is not the time. The time now belongs to Mexico and to concentrate on continuing to work for what unites us,” the official wrote on Twitter.
This after Giovanni Dos Santos, Miguel Layún and Braulio Luna posted videos on their TikTok accounts sending greetings and messages of support to the Segob owner, stating that they felt “Very Augusto” with their friendship.
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