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Morena Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña is back at the center of the controversy over alleged violation of the principle of republican austerity, one of the pillars promoted by the movement of the so-called Fourth Transformation.On this occasion, Fernández Noroña rented a business plane, model Socata TBM 850, to participate in Information Assemblies in the cities of Torreón and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.According to the newspaper Reforma, the ren…
By land or by air, apparently there is no austerity that is valid for the morenist Gerardo Fernández Noroña. By land, in August it was revealed that the Senator acquired a mansion of 12 million pesos in the Magic Village of Tepoztlán, Morelos, without cadastral registration or payment of taxes. And by air, last weekend, Fernández Noroña flew on a private luxury plane, at a cost of $2,000 per hour, to a "report" of activities in Torreón, Ciudad A…
After the newspaper Reforma reported that Gerardo Fernández Noroña traveled by private jet to Torreón, Ciudad Acuña and Piedras Negras –in the state of Coahuila – for information assemblies, with a supposed cost of 280,000 pesos, the Moreno legislator said that President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that it is sometimes justified. Images of the private jet that Noroña used for his "information turns" of Morena, curiously called "groundside." A fli…
• The senator assured that the flight was paid for with own resources and not with public money.• He explained that President Sheinbaum has said that, if necessary, private flights can be used.• The controversy is unleashed in the midst of Morena's calls to maintain austerity.The trip and its justification Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña, of Morena, defended having rented a private plane to make a political tour in Coahuila, arguing that there …
Noroña has always been characterized by being controversial and responding unswervingly, but that is not why we should let go of what he said this time. He evaded to answer about the private plane in which he traveled through Coahuila and said he will continue to use it because it is necessary. Moreover, he fought with a reporter from TV Azteca saying that his boss, Salinas Pliego, was the one who paid him the little trip in the north of the cou…
Noroña stated that she has no obligation to disclose the expenses related to her transfer and said that the trip was not paid with public resources.
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