President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended the former PRI governor of this state, Carlos Joaquín González, whom the president appointed to occupy the Mexican embassy in Canada, but so far it has not been ratified by the Senate for this diplomatic mission.

On the morning of this Thursday, which takes place from this capital, the head of the federal executive was questioned about the aptitude of the former president of the state and he was warned against acts that he would have committed since his mandate, such as repressions, before which López Obrador gave his support to Joaquín González and defended his candidacy as ambassador.

“We have already made the proposal (that he be an ambassador) and it will be the Senate that will decide. I respect your point of view (he told the reporter who questioned the nomination), but I have other information. And we are free, I believe that the former governor of Quintana Roo did his job well, but I also respect your point of view, it is my appreciation. We have made great progress in Quintana Roo and throughout the country, and especially in the southeast, as we have also had the support of state governments. »

En ese sentido, expresó que en el caso de este estado el ex gobernador apoyó las políticas y programs federales, mismos que se han potenciado con la actual gobernadora, Mara Lezama (Morena), presente en la mañanera, “pero los dos se han portado very good”.

Yesterday, the Standing Committee of the Congress of the Union stopped the ratification in Expressway of the appointment of Carlos Joaquín González as Mexican Ambassador to Canada, after the proposal to consider the issue of the urgent resolution did not reach a qualified majority.

At the beginning of the sessions of this body – which operates during the vacation periods of the Senate and the House of Representatives – the president of the said commission, the member of the PAN Santiago Creel, presented to the plenary session the proposal to discuss the appointment of the Ambassador to Canada as a matter of urgency.

The vote was 18 in favor of Morena and his allies; 16 against the opponents PAN, PRI, PRD and MC, and one abstention from Beatriz Paredes, member of the PRI. In view of this result, the ratification of the appointment of the former governor of Quintana Roo was entrusted to the second working commission of the Permanent, chaired by Senator Paredes.