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Contractors and subcontractors of Texcoco Airport have agreed with the elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to begin the process of settling the contracts of these works as of today, without lead to a judicial process. Obrador even invited them to participate in the construction of an airfield in Santa Lucía – with new tenders – and they accepted.
"They were very respectful of the decision made by the Mexicans who took part in the consultation, in the respect of the will of the citizens, who behaved at the height of the circumstances (…). will have no complaints, shelter, all very well.There was no storm (with the businessmen for the cancellation of NAIM), it was raining a bit, it was raining, "Obrador said.
The next federal president visited a restaurant in Polanco where he met 17 businessmen, including Carlos Hank Rhon, president of Grupo Hermes (to which the peninsula belongs); Hipólito Gerard, president of GIA, and Antonio Gómez, director of infrastructure of Grupo Carso, who represented businessman Carlos Slim.
Guadalupe Phillips, director of the ICA; Antonio Boullosa, director of Prodemex, Héctor Ovalle of Coconal, and Juan Diego Cortina, president of Eppcor, among others. It should be noted that these contractors are those who have 92% of the contracts of the new airport.
Javier Jiménez Espriú, the next Secretary of Communications and Transport, said the cancellation would concern each of the contracts and that, in order to finalize them, trust resources for Texcoco's work would be used.
He clarified that entrepreneurs will not be asked to move their work volume from Texcoco to Santa Lucia, as Obrador originally said, but that the contracts will be finalized and that there will then be new Offers for Santa Lucia.
For his part, Obrador said the contractors said they would participate in the construction of the two runways at Santa Lucia Airport.
"They will participate in Santa Lucia, it is very likely, as well as other work"; he said.
Obrador and Jiménez Espriú both said that when the contracts were canceled, the next government would pay the non-recoverable expenses of investors, but not the penalties, given the level of bargaining reached.
"The contracts with them will be finalized in accordance with the provisions of the law.We will pay for all the work that has not been paid, we will pay all the expenses not recoverable. (…) It n n There is no penalty or surety, the government does not accept penalties in contracts, any.Where there is a suspension of a work for reasons of public interest, such as it is the case, there is no penalty, there is respect of commitments, what we have left, "said Jiménez Espriú.
"They will not lose anything, they will participate in the bidding for many jobs we will have, including Santa Lucia," he added.
How much money will be lost? We asked the next secretary.
"We have already said: what is already invested is 58 billion pesos, about 60,000 million, and what we estimate, among the non-recoverable expenses, can reach 40,000 million pesos," he said. answered.
The elected president assured that there would be no loss and no savings of 100,000 million pesos, with the cancellation of Texcoco's work.
Regarding the sources of work that would be lost because of the work in progress, Obrador said that "they will have a job, there will always be a lot of work." There will be work in Texcoco because Lake Nabor Carrillo will be saved, it will become an ecological park ".
Query of the Mayan train
The president-elect said that he will convene a new consultation in December to gather citizens' views on the Mayan train. López Obrador said that he had had a survey in which over 80% of the population was in agreement that this transport work would be carried out in the south-east of the country.
He stressed that this consultation would be organized in the same way as the consultation on the new Mexico City airport. He said that he was not expecting the participation of the National Electoral Institute (INE) because there are still locks to hold a referendum and their removal requires a reform of the law.
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In the meantime, define the funding scheme for Saint Lucia
The international airport of Santa Lucia, which requires an investment of 67 billion pesos, could be inaugurated within three years with the operation of one of its two lanes and has not yet defined the financing system for its construction, said the next head of the group of airports of Mexico City (GACM), Gerardo Ferrando.
"The elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked us that the terminal be ready at the scheduled time, with probably a clue, but the important thing is that the military way and its facilities prevail in case of situations d & # 39; emergency ". he commented.
In the pre-project prepared for this terminal, prepared by Grupo Riobóo, it is mentioned that both tracks and the terminal will be completed within 18 months and 20 months, respectively, for their subsequent testing phase and for to be able to open such facilities in the future. 36 months referred.
At the end of a meeting with businessmen attending the New Mexico International Airport, Ferrando said the Santa Lucia issue had been touched quickly as the priority was to finish the contracts in Texcoco in the best possible way.
Has the private sector already been defined for the construction of the new airport?
For the Texcoco funding, the TUA and the fiber optic system, the money of which was not needed, were used, and we thought it would be better to use it. finalize (…) the rate is committed to a project and we must see how we link one thing with another.
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