Monterrey signed a contract with Next Energy, which failed to comply. Since the company did not fulfill its obligations, it was charged 174 million pesos, which were, of course, invested in favor of Monterrey. 'Let them do whatever they want: he who owes nothing fears nothing,' he added. In response to the senator's boldness, Mayor Adrián de la Garza countered his statements; he assured that legal actions were being taken during his second term, however, Colosio Riojas's attempt to terminate the contract only increased the expenditure of resources to the energy company. 'In 2024, the families of Monterrey decided that I should return to the city, when I realized that these modifications made no sense, I initiated audits and thanks to that we managed to freeze the supplier's accounts, we recovered more than 650 million pesos for the city, we forced the supplier to pay 20% of the municipality's electricity bill and we recovered the Cerralvo land that belongs to Monterrey and that MC had given away,' the mayor added. After the arrest of Next Energy's owner, Eugenio Maiz, in Aguascalientes, Adrián de la Garza's administration suffered collateral damage because Jovita Morín, who executed the fraudulent contract in the Bajío region, remains as the PRI's comptroller. After the Monterrey city council secretary, César Garza Villarreal, involved Luis Donaldo Colosio in the controversy over the Next Energy contract in the capital, the senator assured that thanks to his intervention 'I saved the current administration's skin.' The Citizen Movement legislator recalled that it was Adrián de la Garza's administration in 2020 that closed the contract for a cost of over 7,300 million pesos for 30 years, and despite trying to terminate it, he stated that he does not fear any complaint or audit against him for this case. 'Don't come to me saying that my administration had negligence, if they saddled us with 30 years and a debt of more than 7,000 million pesos for a solar park that did not exist. I terminated the contract, that is, I saved the previous administration from going to jail precisely for simulating fraudulent schemes... payment was made for services that, I reiterate, were not being received... with falsely issued information from the Municipality to the bank. Then the MC government came and changed two fundamental things to the contract, first it increased by 400% what was paid to the company monthly, this despite the fact that the company continued not to comply. And second, they decided, for some reason, to forgive the provider their fines and sanctions,' said De la Garza. After regaining administration in 2024, he believes they increased the benefits. 'What did my administration do? Then the Municipality was suffering a hemorrhage of spending,' said Colosio.
