(Provides quote, particulars on plan) MEXICO CITY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres
(Provides quote, particulars on plan)
MEXICO CITY, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador will raffle off his predecessor’s luxurious
airplane in a bid to boost funds for the nation’s public
hospitals, he introduced on Friday.
Anybody within the plane will be capable of purchase raffle
tickets for 500 pesos ($27) every in a bid to boost some 3
billion pesos, or about $160 million, the president defined.
Lopez Obrador, who has persistently derided the $130 million
airplane as an emblem of maximum authorities extra, has made a degree
of crisscrossing Mexico aboard business flights, typically taking
fellow passengers abruptly.
The specially-outfitted Boeing 787 Dreamliner was acquired
in 2012 in the beginning of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s six-year
time period.
Lopez Obrador stated the federal government would maintain open the choice
of renting out the plane, however emphasised that the raffle is
his most well-liked plan.
“We’re doing this in order that we do not public sale it off cheaply,
in order that we aren’t in a rush,” he stated.
Over the previous yr, the federal government has been unable to promote
the airplane outright.
($1 = 18.6989 Mexican pesos)
(Reporting by David Alire Garcia and Noe Torres; Modifying by Jon
Boyle and Toby Chopra)
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