Fernando Camacho Servin
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, January 24, 2026, p. 7
The fact that an agreement has not yet been reached between Morena and the Labor (PT) and Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM) parties on the electoral reform initiative that President Claudia Sheinbaum will send to Congress “does put pressure” and leaves open the possibility that this project will not finally be presented, stated the cherry parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies.
Interviewed at the end of his participation in a forum with university students, the coordinator of Morena in San Lázaro, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, indicated that the approaches with the allied parties continue to reach an agreement on the amendment that could be presented to the Legislature in February.
“The meetings continue. I am aware that this and next week they will continue and that already yesterday (Thursday) there began to be topics and the drafting will surely begin. President Claudia Sheinbaum said that there was already a draft, that there were projects to modify articles of the Constitution,” said the legislator.
Although he stated that they have until the second week of next month to receive the presidential initiative, Monreal admitted that “the times are adjusted, but our deadline is February. Hopefully the understanding between the three parties (PT, Verde and Morena) can reach a happy conclusion.”
–Doesn’t it put pressure on the times to adjust? –he was asked.
–Yes, it does put pressure. Every day that passes, it does put pressure. But we have until the second week of February for the arrival of the initiative. I hope we achieve it – he noted.
After pointing out again that it has been “very clear” that without the endorsement of the PT and Verde “there are no possibilities for constitutional reform”, a statement that “sometimes is not liked”, the Zacatecan acknowledged that the risk of not presenting the amendment initiative “continues; if we do not have understandings and agreements, it continues.”
