By Jose Gerardo Mejia
Morena and allies used their majority to delay the delivery of the opinion of electoral reform that proposes the disappearance of the electoral organisms.
The agenda of the Board of Directors of the united commissions established the circulation and presentation of the project, which has as its axis the initiative of the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorbut the change was endorsed with 18 votes and 17 against the PRI, PAN, MC and PRD.
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The change proposal was Graciela Sanchezpresident of the Political Reform Commission, to “the presentation and circulation of the draft opinion with the draft decree that reforms, adds, and repeals the Constitution on electoral matters.”
The Morenista’s approach was rejected by opposition legislators made up of PAN, PRD and Movimiento Ciudadano, who voted against it to demand that the document be presented as established on the agenda.
At the start of the vote, the PRI Parliamentary Group He voted in the first instance against the proposal and then made a rectification on instructions from his leadership.
The first to do so was the PRI deputy, Cynthia Lopez Castrowho voted against out loud, but her national leader, who was sitting two places from her, asked her to change the direction of her vote, to do it “in favor of the agenda.”
Moreno took the microphone to reverse and rectify his entire bench.
“President, we are going to rectify our vote, all the PRI legislators, if they can leave the system open for us,” he requested. Moreno Cardenasafter speaking with one of his advisers.
Subsequently, the bench of the AT clarified: “We voted against the modification to the agenda that intended not to present the constitutional electoral reform opinion during that meeting and to reserve its circulation until the plenary meeting of the commissions, as it finally happened.”
The change in the sense of the tricolor vote occurred during the meeting of the boards of directors of the Governance and Population commissions, which he chairs Moreno CardenasConstitutional Points and Political Reform.
Later, the PRI Parliamentary Group confirmed that its “position has been firm and forceful. We are against the electoral reform and we have not given our endorsement in any way that could harm the electoral bodies and democracy”.
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The majority vote in favor of the modification was from Morena, PVEM and the Labor Party, which delayed the delivery of the 938-page opinion to the deputies, who formally received it until the next meeting was held, with all the members of the three committees.
It should be clarified that this Wednesday the project was only circulated, to be voted on in joint commissions on November 28 with the majority of the legislators and the following day upload it to the plenarywhere the approval of two thirds is required.
In the event that it is not approved, both the federal Executive and the coordinator of Morena, Ignacio Mier Velazcopreviously announced that they will promote a reform to seven secondary laws that would be approved by a simple majority on December 7.