Genaro Gongora Pimentel Quotes


There’s no reason to be upset. This was a display of pluralism. We Mexicans need to get used to new times.


Context

Although chief executives of most other countries are commonly abused in the national legislature, Mexico had no had a serious opposition much less public derision of the President before then.


Citations

Genaro Gongora Pimentel, Chief Justice, Mexican Supreme Court, Statement to reporters after President Ernesto Zedillo had been booed and shouted at in Congress, 1999

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Genaro Gongora Pimentel
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Genaro David Góngora Pimentel is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) from 1995 to 2009 and served as its President (Chief Justice) from 1999 to 2003.