Noroña said that the United Arab Emirates pays for the trip because of the Morenoist Senator’s solidarity with Palestine; His trip, he indicated, is because the ceasefire has not been fulfilled, nor has the genocide been stopped, as well as the resumption of the humanitarian aid blockade.
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Mexico City, October 21 (However). – The Senator of Morena, Gerardo Fernández Norona. who has been involved in controversy and scandals recently for his private flight travel and the buying a mansion, revealed this Tuesday that will ask for a license in it Senate to travel to Palestinewhich has been undergoing a campaign of ethnic cleansing y genocide at the hands of Israel. Both sides agreed to a fragile cease fire in the last few days.
“I requested leave from Thursday the 24th [de octubre]”I leave tomorrow, Wednesday, at night for Palestine and return on November 2,” he said. It will be nine days in Palestinian territory, although Noroña did not detail whether he would travel to the Gaza Strip, the part most besieged by Israeli bombings and attacks, or to the West Bank, another of the Palestinian territories that has also historically suffered military campaigns and occupation.
“The flight is with the United Arab Emirates. They pay for the plane because of the solidarity that I have had with Palestine. It is a trip that I had delayed. Here I showed the invitation to visit Palestine, but it had not been possible. In August I was about to make the trip but I could not do it,” explained the Senator at a press conference.
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Noroña argued that he is traveling now “given that the ceasefire has not been fulfilled, given that the genocide of the Palestinian people continues and given that the blockade on food aid has returned and that the situation is very serious, we rescheduled the trip and we will do it on these dates, that is the reason,” the Senator stressed.
The Morenista argued that he could not have asked for leave and could add the necessary absences in the Senate. “I decided, first it is the right thing to do, but since there is an absolute observation about my legislative work, and since the trip is not compatible with the Senate sessions, I decided to present the license,” he explained.
The license is for a defined period in the Senate: from October 24 to November 2. “These are a few days that I need to attend to the trip, there was a lot of speculation, there is no other reason, some speculations were very nice, but it does not apply in any sense, I am fine with the Morena parliamentary group, with President Claudia Sheinbaum and with the movement,” he indicated.
Noroña also announced that he had only notified the coordinator of the senators, Adán Augusto López Hernández, of his leave and his trip.
The reason for the trip, he later explained, was that he would visit the Palestinian authorities. “Meetings are scheduled with the Palestinian Authority, I am going to visit settlements in Palestine, I have a meeting first in the United Arab Emirates and a couple of meetings in Jordan, but most of the time they are touring Palestine,” he indicated.
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Asked if the request for the license was to avoid receiving the Senate’s allowance and not for political reasons, Noroña answered: “Exactly. Any other Senator would have made the trip without further ado and would have appeared as a commission and there would be no major problem, but ‘he who burns himself with atole until the jocoque blows on him’, then since they are already observing what I do with a microscope, it is the healthiest thing.”
“I’m not here to not get paid for a month, but people are supportive in my broadcasts on YouTube and no one earns badly so they can’t do without it for a month,” he explained.
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