Deputy asks to declare Lionel Messi persona “non grata” in Mexico “for kicking the national team’s shirt”

The deputy of the ruling Morena party, María Clemente García, proposed this Wednesday in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies to declare persona “non grata” in Mexico to the Argentine star Lionel Messi.

“With point of agreement, to urge the SRE (Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Relations) to declare as persona non grata the citizen of Argentine and Spanish nationality Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini”, read the Parliamentary Gazette of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday.

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The justification of Garciaa member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the political party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, went for the video that was leaked on social networks in which Messi puts a shirt of the Mexican national team on the floor of a locker room, after Argentina’s victory over El Tri in the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar.

This video was controversial among the fans and the press because the French PSG footballer accidentally stepped on the Mexican shirt, something that even caused the Mexican boxer Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez to threaten to hit Messi; In the end, the undisputed super middleweight champion apologized to the Argentine.

“(Messi) showed not only an obvious contempt, but also a lack of respect towards the colors that allude to those who make up our national flag, which from a sovereign perspective can be considered as conduct constituting an affront against our National identity”followed the justification of the legislator. Maria Clemente Garcia She is one of the first two trans legislators in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico together with his fellow legislature, Salma Luévano.

Neither the SRE nor its owner, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, have ruled on the matter; Ebrard is one of the main promoters of the Mexican candidacy for the 2036 or 2040 Olympic Games.

In addition, the foreign minister is one of the candidates to succeed López Obrador at the end of his six-year term in 2024, which would make him the president when Mexico hosts the 2026 World Cup that will be organized jointly with the United States and Canada.

Mexico they were eliminated in the group stage in Qatar, drawing against Poland, losing to Argentina and defeating Saudi Arabia.

Source: Elcomercio

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