Andrea Becerril and Fernando Camacho
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, January 15, 2026, p. 4
The president of the Senate, Laura Itzel Castillo (Morena), presented to the Permanent Commission an initiative to issue a new regulation of that Upper House, which regulates internal work and reflects the parity achieved.
He explained that it is proposed, among other changes, that in the internal regulations this body of Congress be named the “Chamber of Senators”, since the new integration is a “political fact that places us at the forefront of contemporary democracies.”
Castillo Juárez explained that the initiative, which is also supported by legislators Martha Lucía Mícher Camarena and Simey Olvera Bautista, from the Morena parliamentary group, incorporates gender language and makes visible those of us who make up 50 percent of these chambers and more than half of the population.
He explained that, in addition, some of the contents of the current regulations are updated, which are outdated due to the latest constitutional reforms, mainly those related to the Judicial Branch and substantive equality.
Castillo Juárez considered “the transformation of parliamentary and administrative language to be imperative,” so that it does not reproduce stereotypes and does not make the female presence invisible, as is the case with the current regulations, as well as to advance the consolidation of a culture of equality, in harmony with the established constitutional principles.”
He said that they thought about presenting a reform to the current regulations, but they concluded that the repealed articles were “so numerous” that they decided to present this initiative to issue a new one.
Other changes are that a parliamentary group must have at least five members or it will be dissolved, in addition to regulating debates, in order to stop insults and disqualifications.
