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Among frequent fliers include the former national president of the PRI, Beatriz Parades (Washington-Brussels and Luxembourg), the general secretary of the tricolor, Cristina Diaz (Havana and New York), among others.
A lack of agreement to convene a special session and resolve the pending reforms, federal deputies turned to tourism and at least 135 parliamentary representatives of all political parties traveled to international destinations during the current recess.
According to official information from the legislature, only between May and June, made 33 trips abroad, but the Political Coordination Board authorized another trip in July and August, as well as the journeys organized by ordinary commissions.
Among frequent fliers, international tours with two each, include the former national president of the PRI, Beatriz Parades (Washington-Brussels and Luxembourg), the general secretary of the tricolor, Cristina Diaz (Havana and New York), the coordinator PRD federal deputy, Armando Rios Pitter, and his fellow Liernes Vidal (Paris and Washington) and the same bank spokeswoman, Leticia Quezada (Istanbul, Florianopolis, Brazil).
The PAN Julio Castellans (Barcelona-Madrid and Strasbourg, France) and Justin Arraign (Madrid and San Salvador), in addition to neoaliancista Maria Pillar Torre (La Habana and Strasbourg) were also more of a foreign trip.
Recalcitrant advocates of austerity, PT legislators also participated in the tours from the public budget of the Chamber of Deputies:
Gerardo Fernandez Nocona, for example, was part of a parliamentary mission of thirteen days in the cities of Perm, St. Petersburg and Moscow in Russia, whiles his teammates Jaime Cardenas, Iphigenia Mario Di Konstanz Martinez and traveled to Madrid, Paris and Kuala Lumpur respectively.
President of the Chamber of Deputies, Jorge Carlos Ramirez Marin, missed turn seven days to accept an invitation from the House of Representatives of Japan, accompanied by Mr. Jorge Alberto Juraidini, PRI, Jose Bermudez Erode, PANNazares Angeles and the PRD.
The largest congressional delegation in the current recession was involved in the meeting-Mexico Antiparliamentary meeting in Washington, between 13 and 16 June.
Comprised of thirteen federal deputies, the group was led by the parliamentary coordinators of the PRI, Francisco Rojas, the PAN, Josefina Vazquez Moat, PRD, Armando Rios Pitter, the PVEM, Juan Guerra, PT, Pedro Vazquez, and New Alliance, Reyes Tames.
Eleven lawmakers were commissioned at the appropriate representatives of the Chamber of Deputies in the meeting of the Latin American Parliament in Havana, from 24 to 28 May, while a group of nine Mexican congressmen attended an OECD forum in Paris, 19 to 26 May.
Among the international destinations lawmakers also have European cities like London, Berlin, Geneva and Prague, Latin American capital cities such as Quito, Asunción, Bogotá, Guatemala and San Salvador, without leaving American cities like New York and Las Vegas.
Although most of the tours were associated with meetings, conferences and meetings of international bodies such as the United Nations, the Latin American Parliament, the OECD and the IDB, was also involved in less diplomatic forums.
This is the case of the authorized travel to the PAN deputy Paz Gutierrez, who attended between 22 and 25 June Seminar “How to matters of marriage and fertility on the economic impact of business and the State,” organized by The Witherspoon Institute.
He also traveled Castellans Gumercindo PAN legislator in turn from May 25 to June 2 the U.S. state of Nevada, to attend the Annual Meeting Club Zapotitlán del Rey, Jalisco.