Thursday, April 21, 2005

More on the desafuero of AMLO

According to the NYTimes, the AG's office finally submitted the case against AMLO to a judge yesterday:

After days of mixed signals from the president, federal prosecutors finally sent their case against the embattled mayor of Mexico City to a judge on Wednesday, but then said the popular left-wing politician would not be arrested and sent to jail.

Instead, the prosecutors said two allies of President Vicente Fox would put up bail money for the mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, keeping him out of prison. The move seemed designed to deny Mr. López Obrador the chance to play the part of a Gandhi or the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., two people to whom he has compared himself.

Version from La Jornada:

''Sin embargo, en lugar de orden de aprehensión, la dependencia pidió una de comparecencia, y manejó en secreto que por la mañana dos militantes panistas pagaron 2 mil pesos de caución que el Ministerio Público Federal autorizó para que el jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal no pudiera ser encarcelado.

En absoluto hermetismo, la PGR manejó la existencia del acuerdo ministerial acerca de la caución y el pago de los 2 mil pesos que al filo de las 11 de la mañana realizaron los asambleístas del PAN Jorge Lara y Gabriela Cuevas....

[According to the Deputy AG:] "Dos ciudadanos mexicanos presentaron billete de depósito para que Andrés Manuel López Obrador goce de la libertad provisional desde este momento y, con fundamento en el artículo 416 del Código Federal de Procedimientos Penales que permite que un tercero otorgue garantía, fue aceptada.

Two PANistas were kind enough to pay AMLO's bond so he won't go to jail.

The AG's office turned in the paperwork five minutes before the deadline yesterday. Is this a case of typical Mexican tardiness? Or, as some speculate, did the Deputy AG want a special judge on the case? More about the judge.

In related news, the PRD plans to reform their candidate selection procedures as necessary to ensure that AMLO can run for President in 2006.

posted by Michelle @ 11:59 AM,

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