The opposition coalition Goes for Mexico in the Chamber of Deputies maintained that, like the electrical reform, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s political-electoral initiative will not pass in San Lázaro.
In addition to rejecting an extraordinary period to deal with this presidential proposal since, they said, “we have to reflect and in any case see if it is discussed in the month of September, what can and should be discussed.”
In a press conference, the coordinators of the PRI, Rubén Moreira Valdez, of the PAN, Jorge Romero Herrera, and of the PRD, Luis Espinosa Cházaro, announced that they will present an alternative initiative to the electoral reform sent by the Executive, while pointing out that there is no conditions to open an extraordinary period to discuss it.
Rubén Moreira Valdez stressed that, although they are going to review and analyze the proposal, they do not see a future for it, since from power a reform cannot be made in this matter because then it would be biased towards the interests of power.
The also president of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) said that they are waiting for how the majority will face the analysis of the electoral reform and “if they are willing to dialogue, because if at the end of everything they insist on their proposals they will have the same result, as a result of not seeking consensus and agreements”.
“Being an electoral reform, it necessarily requires a dialogue with the political forces,” he warned.
For his part, Espinosa Cházaro maintained that there will no longer be extraordinary periods “stuck, that seek to discuss with their backs to the nation on a matter as important as the electoral one.”
“No to an extraordinary for legislative albazos, we must give its place again to the Chamber of Deputies, although some confuse them with a soccer stadium,” he stressed.
anticipate changes
The national presidents of the PAN and PRI, Marko Cortés and Alejandro Moreno, respectively, warned that the president’s initiative “will not pass” in the Congress of the Union without modifications.
“We will not lend ourselves to any reform that weakens the National Electoral Institute (INE),” said Cortés.
For Moreno, López Obrador’s electoral proposal is one more distraction and he anticipated that, without consensus, as a result of dialogue and commitment, he will not have the support of PRI federal legislators.
The presidential initiative, he said, in no way strengthens the INE and made it clear that the PRI “will attend to it in a timely manner”, but until the next regular session of Congress, that is, from September.