Sandra Cuevas denied having thrown balls with money

Sandra Cuevas returned to the public gallery after throwing balls with 500-peso bills attached to militants gathered on the esplanade of the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office, a situation that the mayor, during a press conference, flatly denied.

The meeting with the media was organized by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). In it, the party’s national president, Jesús Zambrano Grijalva, endorsed his support for Cuevas and demanded an end to the ” political harassment ” to which he is subjected. They also commented that they should stop the political persecution of the members of their party for having obtained the mayoralty by majority vote.

However, when questioned by the reporters present about the balls with money, the mayor denied that this had happened: “To begin with, I did not see any ball. So from there, we are already bad.

Faced with this refusal, the journalists stressed that there were videos and images in which the objects he threw at people were seen. To which Cuevas said, “Well, let’s not get sidetracked.”

“Let’s see, let’s see… no, no, no… the most important issue is political persecution and they’re not going to get me out of there. They want to move to another place, I am not going to move, ”Exclaimed Cuevas. Despite the insistence of the reporters, he did not answer anything else about the subject. When she left, the press followed her to the elevator asking the same thing without her giving any statements. Upon boarding, she said goodbye to the journalists and told them to “behave well.”

The mayor declared that the reason why she is attacked is for having refused to be part of the Morena party: “ I received four invitations from two of her closest friends, the head of government, for me to go to Morena and I told them no. . And seeing my refusal these unfortunate events occur, but I am not going to shut up and I am going to defend myself.

Sandra Cuevas is being investigated by the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJCDMX) for the complaints of two policemen for allegedly having been held against their will in the mayor’s office on February 11, which Cuevas has denied and catalogued as a dirty war against him orchestrated by the head of government Claudia Sheinbaum.

The PRD member previously complained about the lack of access to the open investigation folder against her, as well as for not having been notified, to which the Prosecutor’s Office replied that the notification can be given once she is charged, arrested or is subject of an act of nuisance. For this reason, an initial hearing was organized on February 24; however, the mayor did not attend, so it was postponed to February 28.

But Cuevas managed to reschedule the hearing on March 14 to change her defense, according to a statement from the FGJCDMX.

It was after this meeting when the controversial mayor, during the celebration of women’s month in the esplanade of the Mayor’s Office, among the cheers of the people gathered there, the flag-bearer for the Va Por México coalition threw red balls with 500-peso bills, an act that was captured on video by some of the people who attended the celebration.

For this reason, Abraham Mendieta, a member of Morena, demanded that the INE sanction Cuevas for the violation of the Electoral Ban period that has been in force since April 4 due to the Revocation of the Mandate and criticized the National Electoral Institute for having sanctioned Sheinbaum but not to Cuevas: “ he doesn’t see, he doesn’t listen, he doesn’t sanction ”.