Arthur Cano
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 18, 2022, p. 4
Marcelo Ebrard was absent due to his duties as chancellor –he went to a funeral in London–, the Morenoite afternoon was taken by the head of the Government of Mexico City: President, president!
, were the cries that accompanied Claudia Sheinbaum while she greeted, took photos and distributed hugs. Adán Augusto López appeared in the tent a little earlier, and his arrival was accompanied only by a few shouts of support and a few boos.
The scene was predictable. What was new were the continuous shows of support for governors. Solomon, Solomon!
, Marina, Marina!
shouted incessantly the militants who became congressmen thanks to the fact that they were included in the lists by the same state leaders.
If the governors unite, they stay with the party
raised a leader the unlikely scenario that, however, draws the new face of Morena.
A face you can put numbers on. The first indicative vote was on the project to reform the statutes, which included the extension of the mandate of the president and the general secretary until 2024: the proposal was rejected by 520 congressmen and approved by 1,807.
Once they got rid of the media –only invited to witness the inauguration–, the morenistas started the debate on their statutory reform. There were the same number of speakers for and against.
At the center of the discussion were issues such as the appointment of leaders by poll, the power of the party president to reserve two positions on the national committee (Finance and Organization) and the disappearance of some secretariats (such as Education, headed by the philosopher Henry Duessel).
The statutory reform initiative belonged to the National Committee, but in his speech, Mario Delgado endorsed it to the militants Pedro Miguel and Rafael Barajas, who, he assured, present a proposal today
.
objections
Before the debate, Bertha Luján, in her farewell to the presidency of the National Council (which she had held since 2015), summarized the objections of a part of the militancy to the statutory project: We do not know of any organization that gives up their right to choose who represents them
he pointed out, for example, regarding the appointment of leaders through an open survey of the population.
Luján also asked that the reform project be discussed and approved in parts and not as a package, as it finally happened.
The discussion had moments of tension, especially when Rafael Barajas, the nosytook the microphone to defend the reform proposal. He became like a beast, insulting and yelling at people
reported a congresswoman from the first rows.
Barajas defended the proposal that the president of the party have the authority to appoint the secretaries of Finance and Organization. It is proposing, not imposing
he wanted to explain, and the clamor of protest intensified. We are a minority, but very loud
said a congressman.
Barajas continued speaking in the midst of shouts (The people contribute, the people remove!
) of the political necessity
to approve the proposal in its terms and in its entirety, and regretted that some of the attendees did not understand it. It’s very fucking simple, damn
.
And he continued: “The left has an old tradition of fratricidal struggle and we usually get involved in truly absurd discussions among ourselves… Damn, fucking internal lawsuits…”
Vote, vote!
shouted a perhaps majority portion of congressmen, but the exercise of suffrage took long minutes, because, by that time, at least a third of the attendees had come out to take a breath or to exchange support to obtain places in the National Council (Alfonso Durazo, governor of Sonora, was elected as the new president of that body).
At around 10 p.m., the third congress voted for the new members of the national committee and it was expected that the hefty agenda would finish unloading at one in the morning.
