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This week, dozens of directors and owners of important Mexican companies, such as Bimbo, Televisa, Grupo Carso, Cinépolis, Grupo Angeles and Interjet, attended a charity dinner convened by the President at the National Palace to agree on the purchase of raffle numbers. of the presidential plane. Some of the businessmen who could not attend the meeting also agreed to buy tickets for the raffle, as commented by the president in his morning conference, and he also indicated that the invitation to participate is still open. I am very happy and I thank you very much. Let's get more; Some could not be there, but they sent us to tell us that they are participating; Participation is open for others to do the same. Andrés Manuel López Obrador The president assured that, with this agreement yesterday, almost half of the tickets for the presidential plane raffle were sold.
He mentioned that the private initiative was informed of the reason for the raffle, which is to buy medical equipment for the country's hospitals. In his press conference he said that a purchase commitment was obtained from 75 businessmen of 3 million tickets, which will obtain 1.5 billion pesos. They understood it very well, we obtained commitments to purchase tickets for half of the 3 billion that we are thinking of obtaining. That is, there were commitments for 1,500 million pesos… We are talking about just over 3 million tickets, almost half. At the end of this month, the Lottery begins to distribute them America Cell Phone Number List and everyone is going to help, because I repeat, this will be used to buy medical equipment, tomographs, x-rays, ambulances and they will be informed where they are going to go, to which health centers. health, hospitals. piggy bank One told me that he wants his tickets to be distributed in indigenous communities, to be given to the poorest. They want to give the tickets to the government so that they can deliver them to members of indigenous communities, to the poorest communities in Mexico. Andrés Manuel López Obrador The president also highlighted that, instead of signing checks, a commitment letter was signed, and the delivery of tickets will be made at the end of the month.
The letter was delivered to the attendees, but not before having confirmed its veracity. In this letter they would leave in writing their purchase commitment regarding the raffle numbers "voluntarily", the document had four boxes in the which came 4 options: 20 million pesos in numbers 50 million 100 million 200 million pesos "The destination they give to the tickets is a decision that we respect, and what we want, more than anything, is to thank them for cooperating, helping, regardless of whether they are going to deliver the tickets to the people or their workers." Andrés Manuel López Obrador The question that remains in the air is... is this practice an old way in this country to subtly request moche or is it really corporate philanthropy of businessmen, free of all pressure? Social networks were filled with criticism of the event, from individuals to the media. Some personalities in the field of social responsibility shared their opinion on the subject and questioned whether companies with compliance could participate in the raffle for the presidential plane.
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