Fernando Camacho Servin
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 31, 2025, p. 5
In the most recent ordinary period of the Chamber of Deputies, almost 40 percent of the legislators of all parliamentary groups left without exercising their power to present their own initiatives in order to promote their political agenda or try to solve problems in the regions from which they originate.
Likewise, 12 percent of the parliamentarians of San Lázaro have not used this attribution since the beginning of the current Legislature (September 2024) and have chosen to adhere to initiatives of other deputies or to be part of collective projects of their benches.
An analysis of the productivity of legislators prepared by The Daybased on data from the General Directorate of Parliamentary Support – updated as of December 8 – shows that of the 500 deputies, 196 (39.2 percent) abstained from promoting reform projects initiated by themselves.
In the recently concluded first period of ordinary sessions of the second year of the 64th Legislature, which ran from September 1 to December 10, the bench that most stopped championing its own projects was that of Morena (the majority), since of its 253 members, 122 (48 percent) did not send a single initiative of their authorship.
Of that number, 42 have abstained from doing so since the current Legislature began, on September 1, 2024, so they have not used said attribution for 15 months.
A particular case is that of four cherry legislators who have not presented initiatives and do not have any proposal registered in the database of the Chamber of Deputies, which is a request or exhortation to the plenary session to establish a position on a certain issue.
It’s about Jesus Chuy Jiménez, Roberto Mejía Méndez, Zoraya Villacis Palacios and Isidro Enrique Villegas García, who took office after being substitutes for Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, Rigoberto Salgado Vázquez, Rosa Hernández Espejo and Roberto Ramos Alor, respectively.
Of the 70 deputies of the National Action Party (PAN), 16 (22 percent) have not presented any of their own initiatives in the regular period of sessions that just concluded, and of them, four have not done so since September 1, 2024.
A strategy of the bench of the blue and white was for each legislator to join the proposals of other deputies from his parliamentary group. For this reason, practically all PAN legislators appear as adherents of 223 initiatives, of which only 11 were approved and seven were withdrawn.
In the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), the deputies who did not exercise their power to be individual initiators of any proposal were 20 (32 percent of the 62 parliamentarians of that political institute), and of them, eight have not done so since the beginning of the current Legislature. Virtually all of them have presented eight group initiatives, of which seven are pending and only one was approved.
On the other hand, of the 49 members of the Labor Party (PT, the fourth largest in San Lázaro), 17 (equivalent to 34 percent of the total) did not present initiatives that reflected an individual agenda, and of them, eight have remained in that situation since this Legislature began. All PT members have registered two initiatives proposed by their bench, which are still pending voting.
The case of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has a particularity: of the 117 initiatives that its deputies have presented in particular, they have only achieved the approval of one, referring to the fight against extortion.
In the last regular period of sessions, the PRI caucus in San Lázaro presented two group initiatives, still pending voting, and 16 of its 37 legislators (43 percent) were left without making personal proposals. Of them, only one has maintained this inactivity since September 2024.
Finally, the Citizen Movement (MC) parliamentary group could be considered the one with the highest individual productivity, since of its 28 members, only five (17.8 percent of the total) did not present an initiative linked to their personal agenda. Furthermore, unlike the other benches, all orange deputies have presented at least one project since the current Legislature began.
Likewise, there were especially active legislators.
Among those in the majority bloc are Fernando Castro Trenti (Morena), with 19 personal proposals), Rosario Orozco (Morena), 15; Arturo Ávila (Morena), 13; María Teresa Ealy (Morena), 11; Mario Alberto López (PVEM), 11, and Miguel Delgado (PVEM), 10.
The opposition includes Ana Isabel González (PRI), 25; Ivonne Ortega (MC), 23; Yérico Abramo (PRI), 19; Annia Sarahí Gómez, (PAN), 17; Eduardo Gaona (MC), 17; Verónica Martínez (PRI), 16; Teresa Ginez (PAN), 15; Éctor Jaime Ramírez (PAN), 13; Paulina Rubio (PAN), 13; Rubén Moreira (PRI), 13; Laura Ballesteros (MC), 13; Paola Longoria (MC), 13; Laura Cristina Márquez (PAN), 11; Paulo Martínez (PAN), 10; Anayeli Muñoz (MC), 10, and Iraís Reyes (MC), 10.
