The National Action Party (PAN) and Somos México joined the defense of former Baja California governor Ernesto Ruffo Appel, who has spent a month and a half imprisoned at El Altiplano prison for allegedly leading the largest network of illegal fuel trafficking, known as huachicol fiscal, ever detected in the country.
Jorge Romero Herrera, national leader of the PAN, and Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, leader of Somos México, accompanied Verónica Ruffo Sánchez, the former governor’s daughter, and the Plural Committee for Ruffo Appel’s Freedom this Tuesday to demand that the PAN politician be allowed to continue his criminal proceedings under house arrest.
Outside the FGR delegation in Mexico City, accompanied by former President Vicente Fox Quesada and members of the PAN and Somos México, Verónica Ruffo announced an expansion of her father’s legal and political defense team.
Likewise, the daughter of the country’s first opposition governor announced that her father’s legal team had been strengthened. His lawyers filed two additional constitutional injunctions (amparos) challenging the mandatory pretrial detention imposed on him, which has kept him imprisoned at El Altiplano.
“The number of lawyers was expanded, and there are four new lawyers. There are two constitutional injunctions, one for precautionary measures and another against the order binding him over for trial, and both were admitted,” she said.
She said that prison authorities had relaxed restrictions on visiting her father and bringing him medications and personal belongings.
During her remarks, Verónica Ruffo stated that her father’s case is no longer an individual matter, but rather a cause concerning freedom in the country.
Holding up her identification card, she recalled that Ernesto Ruffo Appel promoted the use of a photo voter ID card in Baja California, which was later implemented nationwide.
“My father, together with all the citizens in 1989, fought so that the elections would not be taken away from them. He organized all the citizens to watch over the polling stations, and it was a long ordeal. He told me about it many times, but he also told me the story of how he could not allow citizens to go through what happened in 1989 again, and that is when he implemented the first photo voter ID card in Mexico,” she said.
She called on President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to ensure that her father’s case, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, complies with the law and due process.
“My father is 74 years old and, despite what he is going through, he continues to send the same message of hope, reflection, and unity: that we should not attack, that we should not respond with hatred, and that we should not allow ourselves to be divided because his fight is not against people. His fight is for truth, justice, and Mexico… Mexico deserves strong institutions. Mexico deserves a republic where no one has to wonder whether the law will be applied differently,” she stated.
She added: “The last time I saw my father, he told me something that left me deeply troubled. ‘There is no longer a republic.’ I want to believe that we can build it again. He called on the President. He said he knows that she has communist ideals and that that is fine, but that she should operate within the law, and that she should decide to be the President of all Mexicans, both those who think like her and those who do not.”
Source: es-us.noticias.yahoo
