Roberto Garduno
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday November 22, 2022, p. 8
The national leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, reiterated the commitment of his party, which will vote against the proposal for constitutional reform in electoral matters of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose text will be presented tomorrow by the Morena bench before the united commissions of Constitutional Points, Governance and Electoral Reform in San Lázaro. In the midst of this process, it is also expected that in the next few days the PRI, the PAN and the PRD will announce a joint position regarding the selection process for the four electoral advisers, which will be settled at the beginning of next year.
On the side of the Institutional Revolutionary, it became clear that the committee in charge of forming the quintets of candidates for the General Council of the INE must be plural, citizen, non-aligned and with a history of irrefutable confidence.
And regarding the determination that the PRI leadership committed to its National Political Council, to vote against the so-called plan B of Morena’s electoral reform, with modifications to seven regulatory laws, this position is due to the fact that the tricolor It has not presented –nor does it plan to do so– proposals on the matter and therefore does not feel pressured to vote on the subject.
Meanwhile, the parties that have expressed interest in preparing a draft opinion, resulting from the plural group in the Chamber of Deputies, are the PAN and the PRD, which led the current legislature’s own initiatives. At the same time, the Movimiento Ciudadano party, in the voice of Jorge Álvarez Máynez, did commit during a private meeting of the Political Coordination Board its participation in the analysis and ruling on the 109 initiatives that are in San Lázaro; however, in public he denied it.
Thus, the presidency of the Constitutional Points Commission, which is chaired by Juan Ramiro Robledo, deputy from Morena, will distribute the federal Executive’s constitutional reform project tomorrow – which contains the full text of the initiative that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent to San Lázaro last April – between the legislators of the united commissions of Points, Governance and Electoral Reform for its review. Interest is noted on the side of its promoters for the text to be approved tomorrow by the three working groups and sent to the chamber presidency, in order to enlist it for Thursday’s session.
In the aforementioned commissions, given its composition with a Morenista majority and its allies, PT and PVEM, the reform initiative will be approved by a simple majority, however, in the plenary chamber the rejection of the PAN-PRI-PRD opposition is outlined and its consequent elimination for not reaching the qualified majority.
After this procedure, Morena and her allies will present their plan B the following week, in which the main point of reducing 3 billion pesos to the INE budget prevails, but it will be necessary to define how spending will be cut to the institute, once The resources have already been guaranteed.