Lorenzo Chim
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday December 6, 2022, p. 9
Campeche, Camp., President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that this Tuesday morning he will send his plan B for the electoral reform, and admitted that he does not have enough votes to approve the constitutional changes that he proposed on the matter, such as the reduction from 500 to 300 deputies or the cut in party spending.
During yesterday’s morning conference, held at the facilities of the Seventh Naval Zone in Lerma, Campeche, he acknowledged that the PRI and PAN legislators are not going to vote for the constitutional reform because since they maintain that the INE is not touched, then they are going to stop the reform. They do not have a majority, but they do have the votes required to prevent a constitutional reform. Of 500 votes, 334 are needed for the reform to be carried out and we are not going to reach them
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He said that although Morena and his allies do not have the majority necessary for the constitutional modification, they do have the necessary ones to approve the electoral reform, the secondary law, with this it will be possible to promote an adjustment in the INE budget and control the purchase of votes
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López Obrador also accused the institute of violating articles 6 and 7 of the Constitution on freedom of expression, by ordering the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, to demarcate the pints in his favor.
“The INE is a superstructure of power, of course de factoIn fact, because in an obvious, notorious, public way, they are violating the Constitution, but since it is not touched, they are the untouchables of the power mafia, they protect them, even the conservatives hold marches to protect this type of flagrant violations of the Constitution.”
He rejected that the resumption of the impeachment process against the national president of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, is a way of putting pressure on them to support the electoral reform. “We do not make any kind of agreements that have to do with complicity.
In the case of votes in Congress, that depends on each person. If it were about defending the people, well, they are even applauded, but what they are doing is defending corruption. Those who are voting like this are going to go down in history, but in the dustbin of history, because people are watching them.
Regarding the nomination process of the Morena candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, he explained that he will be the one who wins the survey, the one the people want, and that will be the one he will support.
“’Ah, it’s that if you don’t support me and I didn’t win the survey, I’m leaving.’ Good luck, go on your way. They have to take care of that because they will not be able to do it in any game. Imagine if someone loses a poll, are they going to be waiting for them in another game? What party would you accept?
estimated that in the conservative bloc they have more candidates than supporters, there are about 100, but it is not so that they are candidates for the Presidency, but so that they end up as deputies on the multi-member lists, it is a trick
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He asserted that in Morena there are only five applicants: I don’t see more, it may be 10, but that can be resolved without any problem with the survey. And whoever comes out, woman or man, who are also my brothers and it is my sister Claudia and my brothers Adán, my brother Marcelo, and I have no problems with Monreal and I have no problems with Noroña either.
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With information from Emir Olivares.
