Mexico City. The Chamber of Deputies approved this morning changes to the Social Communication Law, to determine that the opinions of public officials do not constitute propaganda, and entered into the discussion of a reform to the electoral legislation, which Morena presented after an agreement with his allies of the PT and PVEM, who to vote in favor of the new framework negotiated changes to shield their permanence in the electoral system.
The presidential initiative with a package of changes to six laws on electoral matters, which Morena took up again and was discussed in plenary session with the waiver of all procedures, without being previously published in the Parliamentary Gazettewould have affected their allies in the amount of financing and in the distribution of multi-member deputies.
Almost at one in the morning, the opposition left the venue en bloc, after warning that they will present actions of unconstitutionality before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, and even threatened to resort to international instances.
The departure of the PRI, PAN, PRD and MC accelerated the approval of the reform, and the changes to the Law of Social Communication, as well as to the Law of Responsibilities, were endorsed almost at two in the morning, with 267 votes in favor. and 221 against.
Since morning, the heads of both parliamentary groups (PT and PVEM) have asked the coordinator of Morena, Ignacio Mier, for time to analyze the initiative and present their observations, but the legislator from Puebla refused. However, the jaloneo continued during the day and at night.
In a new version of the reform, PT and PVEM managed to secure that they can maintain registration as political parties, even if they do not obtain the national minimum of 3 percent, if they maintain local registration by obtaining at least 3 percent of the vote. issued locally, in at least 17 states of the country.
In the plenary session and the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies, the representatives of Morena and its allies displayed their support for the reform of secondary electoral laws on posters. Photo Roberto Garcia Ortiz.
As part of the negotiations, the PT promoted the elimination of the requirement that national parties have at least 3,000 members in at least 20 states or to maintain the minimum number of members required in the respective laws for their constitution and registration.
In fact, the initiative included practically all the proposals of the party led by Alberto Anaya. The bench had threatened Morena with voting against it and the PVEM too; Together they have 74 votes, which the Guinda deputation needed to vote for the electoral framework.
As part of the agreements, the PT managed to include that “political parties may, charged to their ordinary public financing, make savings in one fiscal year to be able to exercise it in subsequent years,” even though the budget provisions require reimbursement to the Treasury of the Federation.
Another of the nodal points of the PT initiative that was added is the figure of an agreement for the distribution of votes cast between the parties and that, when they postulate a common candidacy, the logo or emblem of each one appears in the same box on the ballot . The original proposal called for the parties to appear on the ballot separately, which would have decreased the number of votes and therefore legislators in Congress.
Morena’s new arrangement with her allies delayed the start of yesterday’s second session for four hours, after the rejection of the President’s constitutional initiative.
At 10 p.m., the board of directors decreed a recess, and from the panismo the chorus arose “!cash to the Green, cash al Verde!”, in reference to the negotiations of that party.
When the president of the Electoral Reform Commission, Graciela Sánchez (Morena), informed of the pact and delivered the 242-page file to the board of directors, the opposition chanted that the process was illegal, because the requirement to publish it beforehand was not met. on the Parliamentary Gazette.
The opposition agreed to present positions against it, but later left the venue. The national leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, stated that Va por México complied with not giving a qualified majority to the President’s constitutional initiative and anticipated that, if the secondary legislation proposal violates the Magna Carta, appeals will be presented before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.