“Morena came out better PRI than PRI”: Chumel Torres slammed AMLO government for ASF report

The report of the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) reports various irregularities and deficiencies in the administrative management of the Mexican government. This document, which affects each of the federal organizations and projects, was sufficient reason to Critics of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will share their thoughts on the issue.

Such was the case with the known youtuber Chumel torres, who, sharing a note about the resistance of the Civil Service Ministry (SFP) to be audited by the oversight body, wrote on his Twitter account:

Morena came out better PRI than PRI

Hours earlier, the self-proclaimed ‘prince of nerds’ responded to the Mexican president, as he said at a morning press conference: “They are exaggerating, their data is false”, referring to the ASF report.

The ASF notes irregularities for more than 67 billion in the first year of López. “They are exaggerating … I have other data,” he replies. There is no doubt that this president will go down in history, but not as he believes

Asked about the 2016 Public Account report published by the ASF, which reveals, among other things, that the New Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) cancellation costs will be up to triple what the executive initially announced», President López Obrador replied with his classic« I have other data ».

According to the initial estimate, the Ministry of Communications and Transport, headed in 2019 by Javier Jiménez Espriú, ensured that the cancellation of the government emblem project of former President Enrique Peña Nieto, it would not cost more than 100 billion Mexican pesos.

However, the audit body indicated that this figure had been exceeded, since 163,540 million pesos had been spent. In addition, he estimated that the total cost could amount to 331,966 million pesos.

Meanwhile, López Obrador said that if the conclusion the ASF came to was correct, there would also be savings compared to the initial cost of the NAICM: “If that were true, we are still saving around 300,000 pesos”.

On the other hand, the report accuses the agency headed by Irma Eréndira Sandoval to show “Resistance to the audit process, by not allowing the audit team access to its facilities and files, and its officials refused to appear before the ASF”.

It is concluded that the posición adoptada por la SFP durante el proceso de fiscalización resultó ser incongruente con la estricta aplicación de los principios de transparencia, rendición de cuentas, y combate a corrupción ya la impunidad that the propia dependencia federal impulsa en el ámbito de sus faculties

Another finding of the ASF is that the projections justifying the contraction of the Dos Bocas refinery do not coincide within the federal government, due to an overestimation of its usefulness.

The main dissonances lie between Pemex Industrial transformation and the Energy secretary (Later), because while the first indicated that the refinery will operate at 90% of its capacity, the Secretariat headed by Rocío Nalhe indicated that it would be used at 78.5%.

“However, the audit found that the percentage refinery utilization projections, which support previous estimates, were above 90.0% and did not correspond to those defined for the sector by SENER (78.5%), nor with the used capacity recorded in 2019 in the SNR (36.4%) ”.

Besides the fact that Pemex did not take into account the SENER data, it omitted “what was indicated by OPEC of 79.9 percent of refining infrastructure use worldwide and 55.4 percent. one hundred for Latin American countries, including Mexico. Therefore, the difference in numbers could alter the expected revenues with the refinery operation and, therefore, these could be overrated, which would have an impact on the expected profitability for the State ”, indicates the document.

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