Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the party of incumbent President Enrique Peña, intends to name one of its loyal members as head of the Federal Prosecutor General (FGR). As a result, Mexican public opinion has been shaken. As part of the legal reforms enforced in recent years, we expect that once put into operation, the duties of the current Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) will be taken over by the FGR. Beyond a simple name change, the intention is for the FGR to be an autonomous organization, and not subject to the usual government rules. The objective is also that the District Attorney who heads the FGR will be someone who has not been nominated by the president. This aims to avoid conflicts of interest which could arise when the investigator has to conduct inquiries about issues involving those who appointed him to the position. In the context of the damaging and apparently unending corruption scandals afflicting Mexico, it is difficult for the government to find a new head of the FGR (who in theory will have a nine-year term) with absolutely no involvement in mainstream political parties. Therefore, the PRI asking the current head of the PGR, Raúl Cervantes to become the head of the FGR, is something which was deemed by public opinion as an “automatic pass”, since Cervantes would change his post directly to FGR. This change of post could make it easy for power to be managed by people with the same interests. Raúl Cervantes worked with the PRI during the presidential campaign of Enrique Peña. According to reports, Cervantes was also an unofficial adviser of the ex-governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, who has since become a symbol of corruption of the PRI party. Duarte is currently subject to trial and the PGR is the organisation in charge of the prosecution. This is what analyst Leo Zuckermann had to say about the links between Cervantes,the PRI and Peña: El primer fiscal autónomo debe ser lo más autónomo posible para ganarse la credibilidad y legitimidad de la ciudadanía. Será difícil encontrar una persona interesada en este puesto que sea “químicamente pura”, es decir, independiente por los cuatro costados. El problema con Cervantes es que está lejísimos de la independencia porque está cerquísima del Partido Revolucionario Institucional y de Peña. Eso, en caso de que se convirtiera en fiscal, le complicaría mucho la vida a él y a la nueva institución de justicia. The first autonomous district attorney should be as autonomous as possible to earn credibility and legitimacy. It will be difficult to find a person interested in this position who is “chemically pure”, that's to say, independent on all sides. The problem with Cervantes is that he is extremely far from being independent because he is extremely close to Peña's Institutional Revolutionary Party. In the event of Cervantes becoming District Attorney, this would really complicate both his life and the new institution of justice. At the start of September 2017, it became known that amongst the possessions of lawyer Raúl Cervantes is an ostentatious Ferrari car, registered to a nonexistent address which could be part of a tax-dodging scheme. The public was not willing to overlook the situation and took to social media to express their protest: El Ferrari 2011 #PlacasMorelos PXJ-9181 de @RaulCervantesAvale 4 veces más que su casita en Xochitepec.#FiscalCarnal pic.twitter.com/4spoF9HYLJ — Arne aus den Ruthen (@arnemx) September 4, 2017 @RaulCastro‘s 2011 Ferrari PXJ-9181 is worth 4 times more than his little house in Xochitepec. #FiscalCarnal o #FiscalFerrari acabamos pagando los mismos pic.twitter.com/1TeKAk6RQU — Ray Balderas (@BalderasM_LR) September 4, 2017 [Text in the image: Corruption: a proud sponsor of Ferrari in Mexico] #FiscalCarnal [#attorneyfriend] or #FiscalFerrari [#attorneyferrary] it will always be us who'll pay. #FiscalFerrari, desvelado https://t.co/jI6iFTCYTy — hectorjn (@hectorjn) September 6, 2017 [In the summary of the article: Those who know Raúl Cervantes, know about his dealings with millionaires. Travelling in bullet-proof cars, taking vacations in Miami…] #FiscalFerrari, revealed In one tweet, which has been shared more than seven thousand times, Diego Peterson Farah sent the following message to Cervantes, highlighting the public servant's intention to avoid paying taxes known as “possession taxes”: Sr Procurador, la neta si no le alcanza para la tenencia no se compre un Ferrari. Si lo q no alcanza es la moral, no se postule para fiscal. — Diego Petersen Farah (@DiegoPetersen) 4 de septiembre de 2017 Mr Attorney, honestly, if you can't afford to pay taxes you can't afford a Ferrari.