The deputy of the ruling Morena party, María Clemente García, proposed last Wednesday in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies to declare Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi persona "non grata" in Mexico. The reason would be the same for which the boxer Canelo Álvarez attacked the Argentine striker, the video that was leaked on social networks in which Messi put a shirt of the Mexican team on the floor of the locker room, after Argentina's victory over Mexico in the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar.
The boxer's claims ceased as the days went by and he even made a rectification through his social networks. Leo Messi assured that everything had been a misunderstanding and that at no time did he try to disregard Mexico and its symbols.
Despite this, María Clemente García reached the Mexican Parliament with this petition: "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 ", is read in the Parliamentary Gazette of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday.
García is a member of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the political party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. "(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 legislator's justification.
María Clemente García is one of the first two trans legislators in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies along with her fellow legislature, Salma Luévano.
Neither the SRE nor its owner, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, have spoken on the matter. Ebrard is one of the main promoters of the Mexican candidacy for the 2036 or 2040 Olympic Games and one of the candidates to succeed López Obrador at the end of his six-year term in 2024.
