Interviewed after leading a conference in support of Alessandra Rojo de la Vega as mayor-elect of Cuauhtémoc, Gálvez Ruiz explained that there is currently a thesis in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, promoted by former Secretary of the Interior Olga Sánchez Cordero, which states that the parties must be duly represented in Congress.
He therefore considered that these interpretations should be taken into account by the Electoral Court and the National Electoral Institute for the allocation of plurinominal deputies. He hoped that these authorities would carry out an exhaustive analysis of the thesis and the norms established in the Constitution.
“When that (electoral) reform was made, there were no alliances, so we will let the courts interpret. But, as it is today, the vote of someone who voted for this alliance that I headed is worth less than the one who voted for Morena, and that is a violation of their human rights,” said Gálvez.
He warned that the battle for greater space for the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies will be defended through legal and institutional means and also in the streets, with the support of civil society organizations.
“They don’t deserve it (the qualified majority); they won with 54 percent of the votes, they don’t have to have 75 percent of the seats in Congress,” he said.
He added that this maneuver for the over-representation of Morena and its allies aims to ensure that, at the beginning of the next ordinary session in San Lázaro, priority reforms, such as that of the judiciary, are approved in an express manner.
On Wednesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended the qualified majority that the coalition “Let’s Keep Making History” will have in the Chamber of Deputies and rejected that it is an overrepresentation and a violation of the Constitution, as opposition politicians have pointed out.
In his morning press conference, the head of the federal Executive considered that the opposition is acting “shamelessly” by wanting to violate the Constitution and prevent, as a coalition, Morena, PT and the Green Party from having a smaller number of deputies than they should.
