He former governor Patricio Patrón Laviada rated as simple speculations versions of a alleged flirtation with Morena or of a political negotiation that circulated after his meeting with the Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena at an event in Chocholá.
“Nothing, not at all,” he insisted when faced with the questions we posed about that approach, which unleashed a wave of speculation on social networks.
He former chief executive He indicated that he attended the event in Chocholá “as a friend and admirer of Mr. Carlos Aldana (Herrera)”, who invited him to the inauguration of a hotel he owned in the Cenote San Ignacio.
In the photographs that he posted on his social media accounts, Díaz Mena himself included one where he is seen greeting Laviada pattern, brother of Mayor Cecilia Patron and first governor of PAN affiliation in Yucatán.
In a brief interview, the former president stressed that this coincidence with Huacho Díaz was part of a meeting of people who maintain an old friendship, as Carlos Aldana declared the day before.
“They are speculations, speculations out of context, nothing of what really happened,” he stressed in response to the conjectures that arose after the inauguration ceremony.
About Joaquín Díaz he said that There is nothing extraordinary about the fact that I would have greeted himbecause the same thing happens “every time we see each other.”
“When I met him, we talked, because there is a long relationship,” he said.
The political boss
However, he stated that he never considered himself the political boss of the current governor, since he was not his subordinate even in the Merida City Council nor in the State government, and although they coincided in public positions this was at different levels of the administration.
“He was a local deputy, then a federal deputy… He had other positions, but he never worked directly with me,” he emphasized.
“I wasn’t even the one who got him into the PAN. He is founder of the PAN in San Felipe e He did a good job as mayor of that municipality. It is not something that only I say, even President Vicente Fox himself recognized it at the time.”
He insisted on his disagreement with the term “political leader” because he sees it as a concept more linked to the culture of the old PRI.
“As they said there, the bandits have a boss,” he said jokingly.
Finally, he reiterated that we should not fall into assumptions because he is not going to Morena or a government position.
Coincidence in the PAN
Patricio Patrón and Joaquín Díaz coincided in the PAN from 2001 to 2018.
He Today, the governor joined the ranks of National Action in 2001, which made him a candidate for mayor of San Felipe the same year. It was also the beginning of Patrón Laviada’s mandate as governor.
Díaz Mena broke with the PAN in 2018after he did not obtain the Senate candidacy due to an attempt by Raúl Paz, then state president of the party. Now they are both in Morena.
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