Andrea Becerril and Victor Ballinas
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, November 30, 2022, p. 6
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s electoral reform proposal benefits the PRI, which would be the big winner
and for that reason it should support it, said Senator César Cravioto (Morena) in a joint press conference with legislators from his bench.
To the deputies of the PRI, With all due respect, I would tell them not to be silly.
that they realize, today they have 13.8 percent representation in San Lázaro, and if they had applied the proposed initiative they would have achieved 20.6.
Don’t let the MC’s be clumsy. With the same vote they had in 2021, with the new reform they would not have 5 percent of the Chamber of Deputies, but 7.33, and extra! extra! Eight columns! Morena and her allies would not have a simple majority.
Cravioto released a comparison of what the integration of the Chamber of Deputies, elected in 2021, would be like with the modification proposed by the federal Executive, which denies that the changes benefit Morena and its allies.
The reform, he specified, proposes lowering the number of deputies from 500 to 300 and the election would be by entities, no longer by districts.
“If today we add what percentage the coalition that supports the Fourth Transformation has, it has 40 percent from Morena, 8 from Green and 6 from PT “Today we have 54 percent.
If the formula established by the electoral initiative had been applied, Morena would add 38 percent, the Green, 5, and the PT, 2.
That is, Morena and her allies would represent 44 percent. But the clumsiness of the right-wing parties has not even done these accounts, because they keep saying that the reform would benefit the party in power, and there is no more lie than that
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