Elba Esther Gordillo should "step aside" in the control of education: AMLO

By: Arturo Alfaro Galan

2012-04-12 04:00:00

In the final, Lopez Obrador pointed out that
the country has financial resources
sufficient to support the development of the
population, but they have been poorly
managed

Before some 15 000 supporters of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in the base of San Pedro Cholula, the candidate of the Progressive Movement coalition to the presidency of the Republic, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said that when he takes office will ask the president National Union of National Education Workers (SNTE), Elba Esther Gordillo Morales, "stand aside" in the control and management of the country's education policy.

This, he warned that if he wins the elections next July 1, will end political chiefdoms and trade union for many years the profits of the poverty of the workers and violate their rights constantly.

"The chiefs are in a stage of extinction, we will end the chiefdom, because we need a change. We are going to ask, specifically and in the most respectful, Mrs. Elba Esther Gordillo is made to one side. We will improve the quality of teaching and being a true covenant with parents, teachers and students to be a world leader ", he told members of the Democratic Revolution Party, Citizens Movement and the Labor Party.

From the Place de la Concorde in San Pedro Cholula-backed candidates for federal deputies and senators of the Progressive Movement coalition, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said it is time to overcome past practices that keep Mexico in the last places OECD in education, so assumed that the next head of the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) will be Juan Ramon de la Fuente, former rector of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).

He said that De la Fuente will hold a project to make education one of the most important pillars in the economic and social development of the Republic through universal coverage of all levels, providing scholarships to high school students and strengthening the institutions of higher education, with the intention of expanding coverage to 100 percent.

"There will be no one without the opportunity to study, than in a quality public school. We support the humble people, poor people, so that their children do not stop studying (...) Education is the only chance we have to calm to Mexico, out of the pit in which we are, in this crisis values. We must give importance to education, "added Lopez Obrador.

The presidential candidate also was accompanied by Jose Agustin Ortiz Pinchetti, national campaign coordinator, Senator Alberto Anaya, and the local leader of the Citizens Movement, Jose Juan Espinosa Torres, as well as colleagues from the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).

No authoritarian

In presenting his political platform and his proposals to raise the country's development, said that from the first day in office, should get the win in the elections of July 1, will struggle to lose 50 percent the salaries of officials first level, reject the privatization of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), lower the cost of gasoline and electricity, and increase the number of social supports in education, health and older adults.

He also assured that will not act in an authoritarian manner, so that ruled out imposing a dictatorship in the country. "We will respect the freedom, we want democracy, freedom of conscience and religious. No one should be the system of injustice in Mexico. Only righteousness is peace and security in the country, "he said.

In response, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised to "calm to Mexico" and motivate a change in the current neoliberal economic system, which records 29 years have been established in the country.Instead, he said, is to apply public spending "fairly" and "equity", as the resources of the treasury no longer "stuck" in the first circles of government to be distributed among the needy.

This raised a reduction in public spending and the eradication of corruption in the areas of government, "top down", which would save the federal government millions of pesos.

During his speech, the presidential candidate of the left criticized the proposal of his opponents in the elections to privatize Pemex, under the pretext of increasing productivity and generate short-term gains in obtaining raw.

"Any Mexican with a little light on the forehead reject the privatization of Pemex, because oil is not the government, is in the nation. Vote for any of my opponents, these two men and this woman would be more of the same, because none offer better opportunities or solutions in the energy field, "he said.

We are more than

in 2006: AMLO

The Tabasco emphasized in his speech that more people, compared to 2006, took to the streets, public squares and community centers to support the movement to transform the country, headed by him and a group of intellectuals and social leaders.

Before it asked the thousands who endured the wind, cold and more than two hours standing "defend the vote at the polls" to prevent the phenomenon of six years ago is not repeated. "We have to be there, boxes, defending our votes, to avoid what happened to us six years ago. We have to win again and I am very sure about that, because now more people then, "he said.

Even Lopez Obrador justified for several months that militants of the PRI and PAN have joined the ranks of the movement, after realizing that their parties are not interested in meeting people's needs. "To all those people who have touched the door, welcome. This movement is for everyone, many are joining because they opened their eyes. "

In the final stretch of their participation, which lasted about 50 minutes, Lopez Obrador pointed out that the country has sufficient financial resources to promote development of the population, but they have been mismanaged or diverted by previous governments and today, because "corruption is a major scourges affecting Mexico."

He said the budget that the federal government account for the current fiscal year amounts to over 3 billion 300 thousand 700 pesos, enough to develop policies, programs and projects that can improve the quality of life for Mexicans, but the authorities not in their interest to know the amount of resources at their disposal.

The applicant noted that this budget the Federation is exercised by the people, because it conforms to the sale of oil and the taxes they pay Mexicans, which pledged that if became president of the Republic will become the custodian of these resources.

Finally, the candidate for President of the Republic called on all social organizations of the country and the general public to join the movement that leads to change the corrupt system that has caused the fall of Mexico: "we need a regime change, but there is no possibility of good government or employment, justice and security. "

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