Andrea Becerril
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 25, 2024, p. 6
Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones clarified that he will not be an independent legislator, since he has been a member of the PRI for 50 years and will remain so, although he did not clarify what his relationship will be with the PRI bench. tricolorwhich will be coordinated by Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas.
What he did emphasize is that the fact that Morena and allies are three votes away from the qualified majority will make the debate very intense
and expressed hope that both the enormously larger group
as the opposition reach an adequate and civilized level of dialogue that allows them to have agreements, but not capricious ones, but agreements for the benefit of the country.
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Interviewed after receiving his credentials accrediting him as a member of the new legislature in the Senate, Beltrones commented: This morning I got up and checked my DNA and it hasn’t changed, it’s been totally PRI for five decades, so I don’t have that intention.
he responded when asked if he would choose to remain an independent, after Alito excluded him from the tricolor parliamentary group.
–Will you have any rapprochement with Alejandro Moreno?
–The last time I had the opportunity, I saw that he made some public statements with some expressions about me that have nothing to do with reality, but are slander or lies, but that moment has passed. I am watching how the Senate is set up.
He recalled the various occasions in which he coordinated the PRI bench in both chambers, which consists of ensuring that All those who belong to my party maintain their autonomy of thought
and represent the interests of states.
He also declined to comment on the PRI’s small caucus of just 14 members in the legislature that begins next week, or the challenge of having a divided party.
Today I registered as required by the regulations and the call to join the Senate. Later we will experience the most important moments of the integration of the parliamentary groups.
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He added that he will speak with the majority of the coordinators of the parliamentary groups, since he has been notified by the general secretariat of parliamentary services that, in accordance with article 95 of the organic law, he will form part of the board of deans that will set up the board of directors and will swear in the new senators.
Regarding his feelings on arriving at a Senate in which his party is not the majority force and is also divided, Beltrones commented that Every moment of parliamentary life is unique and none is like another.
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For his part, Moreno Cárdenas asserted that the voices of ambassadors, the business sector and academics who have spoken out against judicial reform should be heard.
