Minister’s Dinner Denial: Alcántara Admits to Hosting Piña-“Alito” Meeting, But Claims He Was Nowhere to Be Found
The Minister said that the meeting was called by Minister Piña Hernández to, reportedly, avoid “violating the functions of the Court.”
Mexico City, November 1 (However).- The Minister Juan Luis Alcántara Carrancá received this Friday that the call “cena electoral” in which they discussed Norma Pina Hernandez the Alejandro Moreno Cardenas Yes, it was held on December 12, 2023, when the process electoral go to the Presidency oh Mexico It was already underway.
The Minister, who has been the protagonist of attacks against President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo in recent days, said that the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and the national leader of the Revolutionary Party were at the dinner. Institutional (PRI), as well as several electoral advisers.
In an interview with journalist Azucena Uresti, González Alcántara explained that the meeting, to which PAN member Santiago Creel was also invited, but did not arrive in the end, was held at his home in Las Lomas de Chapultepec, in Mexico City, but was not present.
The Minister said that the meeting was called by Minister Piña Hernández to, reportedly, avoid “violating the functions of the Court.”
“And since he is part of the Judiciary, he called on December 12, when there was no service in the Court, to invite them to dinner. And while I was outside Mexico, he asked me to borrow my house. “I wasn’t present,” he added when talking about the dinner he had among the guests of judges Felipe de la Mata, Mónica Soto and Felipe Fuentes.
It seems that the electoral dinner sponsored by Minister Alcántara Carrancá at his home in Las Lomas between Norma Piña, Alito Moreno and electoral magistrates says that he was not there and it was only done so that there would not be a breach.
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Despite the explanations of the Minister, who presented a project to invalidate the Judicial Reform – which will be discussed on November 5 – this dinner sowed doubt in some sectors, who question the presence of the national leader of the PRI, “Alito”. Moreno, his possible political influence in the Judiciary and the Electoral Court, and vice versa. More than 10 months have passed, and Minister Norma Piña has not issued an official statement about that meeting.
The controversial dinner of December 2023 has been revived in the context of tensions in the judicial and political world, amid the approval of the Judicial Reform and the attempt by eight ministers of the Court to overthrow it.
Moreover, the dinner at the house of Minister Gónzalez raised doubts because it also took place in the context of the 2023-2024 electoral process in which the first female President, Sheinbaum Pardo, who is now female, finally emerged victorious.
At the time, Gerardo González Noroña, as one of the spokesmen for the left-wing presidential candidate at the time, demanded that Norma Piña explain why she invited Moreno Cárdenas, the leader of the PRI, and the PAN member Santiago Creel, to lunch with the magistrates .
Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) during the inauguration of the International Bar Association at the Citibanamex Convention Center. Photo: Andrea Murcia, Cuartoscuro
What the president of the PRI was doing there, what campaign coordinator Xóchitl Gálvez was doing as a guest, is very gentle, very serious; The media is forgetting it, but we must not let go of the fact that the president of the Court, Norma Piña, must say why he invited these two figures and what agreements he intended to make or make because he very serious because there is a strategy of the opposition to annul the election,” said Noroña in an interview with “Los Periodistas.”
The journalist Salvador Frausto was the one who revealed only, in Millenniumthis meeting, which was later confirmed by Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas and Felipe de la Mata Pizaña, who told the same media: “I do not have and we do not have any further comments about a meeting that we were invited by the Minister, President of the Association. The Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice.”
Considering these statements, Fernández Noroña noted that Norma Piña had an explanation for this quote and noted that the Supreme Court established itself as the true conservative party because “the PRI and the PAN are useless, they are ashamed , they hide in all the parades, but the one that creates opposition, breaks the judicial order and overshadows candidacy is the Judiciary.”
“That’s the last straw, it’s very serious and we must not let it pass. It seems to me that Piña should be called to say why he invited those two politicians,” he insisted. “It is a factual use of the institutions, it is clear that the PRI and the PAN have used the citizens. The Minister of that Court where the dinner was (González Alcántara Carrancá) actively participated in the defense of the Court with the gatherings. We said it was partisan and it was evident with the parade on Sunday and then comes this dinner,” said the current president of the Board of Directors of the Senate of the Republic.
From Morena and the campaign of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo by now, Norma Piña’s meeting with “Alito” Moreno and the electoral magistrates was seen as a sign of the closeness of the Judiciary and the right-wing campaign promoted by Xóchitl Gálvez.
