Grecia Quiroz, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, responded to Gerardo Fernández Noroña’s remarks after he attempted to defend politicians from the Morena party against calls for an investigation into the murder of Carlos Manzo.
The response comes after Fernández Noroña’s comments were labeled misogynistic and insensitive by other political figures within the movement that supports him.
“Perhaps this person might say that I don’t have the political experience that he claims to have in his public life, but I can tell him that in public life there are levels, levels to speaking, to expressing oneself, to treating a woman in grief, and I don’t consider it gentlemanly to express oneself in that way. I assumed this position to honor Carlos’s memory,” she responded in a radio interview with Azucena Uresti.
She recalled that Carlos Manzo did not belong to any political party, nor did she; rather, they formed the independent Hat Movement after Fernández Noroña promoted the idea that she was “backed by the far-right.”
She affirmed that she did not use the tragic murder of her husband, Carlos Manzo, to gain political advantage.
“I don’t want to play the victim, far from it, and I haven’t used this situation for political gain. I know how to separate things. I have values, values I acquired from Carlos. He always instilled in me that in politics I had to be upright and honest, and I believe this person doesn’t have the slightest idea what it means to be a public servant because expressing himself like that is beyond words,” asserted the mayor of Uruapan.
