The former presidential candidate Citizen Movement, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, stated that those who make up the orange bench in the Congress of the Union They are not alone since they have the support of more than six million people.
During the plenary meeting of federal legislators of the Citizen Movement, Álvarez Máynez highlighted that the more than six million votes that the party received in the June 2 elections will accompany MC deputies and senators when they participate in the tribune.
“You together will represent 6.5 million Mexicans in these spaces and you will not be alone. They will never be alone on the platform, in a committee discussion, First, because there is a social force that supports them, 6 million Mexicans, and a conscious expression and legislators who work in unity and defend the noblest causes relevant to our time,” said Álvarez Máynez addressing the MC legislators.
Maynez stated that the orange bench has among his convictions promote human rights, address the climate crisis, intergenerational justice, as well as the defense of children.
“We have not only criticized the failed security strategy, we have presented a non-prohibitionist, non-punitive, non-militarist civil alternative to build a Mexico with justice, peace and security,” added the former presidential candidate.
Together with Ivonne Ortega, parliamentary coordinator of MC in the Chamber of Deputies; Clemente Castañeda, coordinator in the Senate of the Republic; and Dante Delgado, national leader of the party, Jorge Álvarez Máynez said that the Movimiento Ciudadano bench will maintain a “vision of justice, of security, of an alternative because the difference between us and the old one is that we present an alternative, a horizon.”
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“The orange bench has that unity of conviction, that combative spirit and is very clear that no matter the result of a vote, we must always aspire to be effective in Congress, to make agreements and build,” he said.