Fernando Camacho and Andrea Becerril
The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, July 18, 2024, p. 4
Senators and deputies from Morena and the PAN clashed yesterday over the issue of alleged overrepresentation for the majority party and its allies in Congress. Both appealed to the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) to resolve this point, but while the guindas called on it to strictly adhere to what the law says on the subject, the opposition asked the authorities to interpret the norm.
At a press conference in the Senate, PAN member Kenia López Rabadán called on the TEPJF to make a constitutional analysis
about over-representation, in such a way that coalitions are equated with the political parties that comprise them, since their interests and even members are the same.
According to the legislator, what the PAN will argue before the court is that “the party and the coalition are the same at this moment. You cannot differentiate them, because then you create a ‘hyper-representation’ and violate the meaning of the vote. A coalition is the same as a party because they have the same intention.”
The PAN member accused the Ministry of the Interior of interfering in the electoral process and trying to ensure that Morena has more deputies than it is entitled to, and warned that the electoral magistrates will have to be very brave
to avoid the overrepresentation that it seeks Maximize one version and almost nullify the other
.
In dispute, the qualified majority
In the Permanent Commission, the legislators of the majority party rejected these accusations. Senator Antares Vázquez, from Morena, stressed in the forum that the opposition is seeking bend the law
to change the interpretation of the concepts of party and coalition, and thus take away Morena’s qualified majority in Congress.
In the Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures, he recalled, there was an article that established that the number of plurinominal legislators was assigned to the coalitions, but the PRI and PAN repealed it in 2008. They can keep saying mass and throwing themselves on the floor, which is all they do, but we have beaten them by their own rules.
he emphasized.
For his part, Morena deputy Leonel Godoy joined what Vázquez said and warned that there is a Campaign
of the opposition to disregard the provisions of the fourth and fifth sections of article 54 of the Constitution, which establish the issue of overrepresentation.
In an interview with the media, the coordinator of the Morena bench in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal, agreed that the assignment of plurinominal legislators should be calculated for each political party and not by the coalition to which it belongs, so he rejected the accusations of National Action, that Morena and its allies seek a supposed overrepresentation
.
The Constitution is very clear, and I believe the Constitution, not the opposition, and what it says is that it is by party. That is how they (the opposition) modified it about 18 years ago and it is still in force. What the law states is very clear, it does not admit interpretation or bias in the strict application of proportional distribution.
of legislators, Monreal stressed.
