▲ Hundreds of people attended the Chamber of Deputies yesterday to support the electrical reform proposed by the Executive Power.Photo Roberto Garcia Ortiz
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The result, in general, it had been sung for several days and confirmed before the session began in San Lázaro: Morena and her allies would not reach the qualified majority to approve the electrical reform proposed by the President of the Republic.
Despite the efforts to divide the opposition vote to the workshop, the result was negligible, since only one PRI deputy openly changed sides, the son of an aspiring Mexican ambassador to the Dominican Republic who is waiting to be approved by senators. The scoreboard, in the end, ended tied in terms of defections, since a legislator arrived on behalf of the Green Ecologist
passed to Movimiento Ciudadano to vote against the aforementioned reform.
Winners beforehand, the opponents of the National Palace took advantage of the opportunity to show off with swaggering childishness, as in the case of PRI member Alejandro Moreno, who seemed unable to hide the immense satisfaction for a first victory against morenismo and its allies; with revanchism typical of a liquidation trust, in the case of what remains of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD-lqq) or with the air of a missionary (brothers Sisters
) gesticulating and histrionic regarding the PAN member Jorge Romero Herrera.
There was the detail: in the attempt of morenism and its allies to make Margarita Zavala excuse herself from participating in the session due to an alleged conflict of interest (which in legal terms was denied) due to the well-paid adventures of her husband, Felipe Calderón, after Los Pinos, in a company with a shareholding of Iberdrola, or in the monetized repentance of the Green for having supported in 2013 the great Peñista transa in electricity matters and now being provisionally retracted aligned with the government in turn, which has been the well-known market policy in the Green
.
The session itself was below the importance of the reform under discussion. Morena and her allies anchored themselves in the common propagandistic place and their own coordinator of deputies, the poblano and bartlettista Ignacio Mier, appeared at the microphone as a simple operator, without giving transcendent perspectives and analysis, beyond the declarative struggle and the anecdotal provocation.
The opponents neither exhibited greater lights nor provided any depth. The PRI Rubén Moreira, in any case, opened a door to later understandings with the morenismo, in order to reformulate initiatives on the electrical issue based on possible give-and-take negotiations at this imprecise but predictable moment (Hidalgo and Coahuila as remaining currencies exchange elections).
In the immediate term, the brake on a presidential initiative was magnified by claudist tripartism (Yes for Mexico: PAN, PRI and PRD-lqq): it is the end of the workshop, they say, and from now on everything will be downhill in the regime dictatorial
located in the National Palace.
For its part, the 4T narrative clings to labeling its opponents as traitors to the Homeland, responsible for preventing substantial reform. It is not difficult to associate claudist parties, plus the zigzagging MC, with the now triumphant interest of powers from the United States, represented in Mexico by Ambassador Ken Salazar, or European companies, as in the case of Italian adviser Paolo Salerno.
Subject to the specific outcome of this session (which was not known at the time of closing this column), which could consist of a vote without a qualified majority to reform the Constitution, or some procedural trick to postpone such a vote and wait for possible arrangements (with the PRI?), the President, the Morenismo and their allies will be left as of today with two important flags: one, the consolidation of national dominance over lithium and another, electoral, that of holding opponents responsible for the obstruction of such an important reform, see you tomorrow!
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