Néstor Jiménez and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, January 22, 2026, p. 5
President Claudia Sheinbaum said that we can be “certain” that the electoral reform initiative developed by the federal government will be “a reasonable proposal that meets the demands of the people.”
After the meetings that the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, had with the leaders of the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM) and Labor (PT) parties, she was asked in her morning press conference if she will personally receive the leaders of the allied parties of the Fourth Transformation.
The president pointed out that she has already done it on other occasions to address the legislative agenda, “but it is not to say: ‘let’s see, how do we get you to agree with the reform?’”
He stressed that the initiative “is not a give and take“, but is built from what was presented in the forums held by the Presidential Commission for Electoral Reform, as well as the opinion of the population gathered through surveys.
He announced that the content of said surveys carried out by three companies will be released, which shows that the population mainly proposes the reduction of the amounts of what elections cost, including political parties, and asks for “greater democracy in other issues, not just electoral issues.”
Regarding the way to define proportional representation legislators, he explained that, “above all, people do not like lists of people they do not know and who, due to the percentage, remain as deputies.
“We do not intend that whoever has a percentage vote does not have representation in Congress. That is called minority representation,” but the problem, he insisted, “are these lists of party bureaucracies, which have become something that citizens do not want.”
As another issue, he pointed out that Mexicans who live abroad have an interest in being the ones who can elect the deputies who represent them, and who are not from the multi-member lists as defined.
For its part, the PVEM leadership met yesterday with the president of the Electoral Reform Commission, Pablo Gómez, who on Tuesday also received the PT leaders in alternate facilities of the Ministry of the Interior, located a few streets from the headquarters of that federal agency.
