Reply #11: I think Obrador is awesome and I hope for him to win the election [View All]

[UpInArms]

here's a link to some excerpt of the text of his speech before the Congress in April

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/7/18351/79942

excerpt:

Next it was López Obrador’s turn. He took the podium and commented to the gathered congressmen, beaming a smile: “You’re going to have to make a desafuero for attorney Vega Memije for violating the rules.”

Here are some excerpts from his speech...

And then he lashed into the speech of his political life, decrying “the falsehood of these charges… I have not violated the law… and it has never been my intention to cause damage or harm anyone.” He reviewed the facts of the case against him, the sloppiness of the attorney general’s office and a judge that issued an order on behalf of a supposed landowner who did not even own the 200 square meters to be used for a hospital access road, the fact that he never built the hospital road, and other irregularities in the accusations: “This case is plagued by falsehoods,” said the Mexico City governor and leading presidential aspirant for 2006. “I would ask you, where was the damage or the harm? We are speaking of 200 square meters of land there and an attempt to create a street to a hospital. The damage and the harm is being done by those who accuse me.”

“They don’t judge me for violating a law, but for the way I think and what that represents for the future of Mexico,” he said, launching into the political underpinnings of today’s proceedings. “There are two competing projects at stake: One on behalf of globalization, the other on behalf of the nation. They don’t like that I give support to the most humble and forgotten people and they don’t want that applied at a national level. This is what is at the core of the matter.”

He attacked “those who think they are masters of this country, the leaders of the PRI and the PAN parties, who want to sell our petroleum and electric industries, who have put our financial institutions into bankruptcy, who have created a nation plagued with inequality. They have delivered this country into the hands of the greediest minority. They want to tax food and medicines but they exempt their protectors from paying taxes. They have ruined the productive capacity of this country and obligated millions of Mexicans to go to the United States to earn a living.”

“They are afraid,” said López Obrador, “that the people will choose a true change. Theirs is a cowardly fear.”

“I accuse President Vicente Fox Quesada of dishonorable acts with the proposition of tying up the national institutions to fight a political battle,” he said, the accused turning prosecutor.

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