For the corcholatas in San Lázaro, neither empty spaces nor applause

Georgina Saldierna and Enrique Mendez

Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, January 31, 2023, p. 5

A pact that was woven over the weekend barely contained the expressions of support from deputies to the caps in the Morena plenary and in the calculation that the election of the presidential candidate will be a test of loyalty to the movementthe coordinator of the bench, Ignacio Mier, unanimously reached an agreement to avoid the rupture and promote, instead, unity.

In the context of the anticipated succession, the plenary session of the cherry deputies inevitably became a catwalk for the four candidates for the party’s candidacy.

The day began with the participation of the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, with whom Mier sympathizes, but the legislator anticipated that the bench would not give the note on who the deputies applauded the most and who they ignored.

That will not happen and we will be united, Told him. This is, that at least in San Lázaro the line is that there is no line.

The pact worked with López Hernández. No deputy expressed any support for him in the question and answer session. Later, with the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, a group of deputies yelled at her president, president! during a press conference.

But already in the afternoon, the deputies who are part of the team of Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations, flatly let their hair down. They received him singing The kingwho interpreted the mariachi with a name not even commanded to do: Fantasia de México.

The initiative to bring the mariachi was from the president of the Health Commission, Emmanuel Reyes Carmona, Ebrard’s delegate in Jalisco. Among others, the deputies Carol Antonio Altamirano, Karla Yuritzi Almazán and Daniel Gutiérrez made cuperacha to pay for the music. This is no longer stopped by anyone!they exclaimed.

I, like Vicente Fernandez

In the so-called San Lázaro Agreement, Mier stated that the 2024 presidential election will be a plebiscite for the Fourth Transformation to continue and deepen, but he also defined that the party cannot afford to fail, especially under pressure from the electoral, financial and real estate mafia, of the usual corrupt who dream of seeing us confronted and divided.

He indicated that it will be a test of loyalty to the movement that the deputies must overcome in unity.

Mier and López Hernández introduced Justino Arriaga, from a family linked to the Anvil in Guanajuato– as a new acquisition of the group, which returns to its 202 members. It hit Morena hard!claimed Inés Parra from Puebla.

Then the catwalk started. The head of the Interior accepted two extensive rounds of questions from the deputies. I, like Vicente Fernandezhe pointed out according to the maxim of the Huentitán charro, who extended his concerts as long as they did not stop applauding him.

Ricardo Monreal was ignored by a few, such as Alfredo Porras, who asked other deputies let’s go when the senator arrived, who even handed out autographs in his book To err is human, to rectify is political.

Surrounded by deputies, Claudia Sheinbaum was approached by Graciela Sánchez Ortiz, who told her: You’re not alone, boss!. Julio César Moreno asked him: photo with my president!.

Morena took care to give equal space to the four caps. “Neither clapsometerbut neither empty spaces”, summed up the leader Mario Delgado.