“I am going to wait for the Chamber of Deputies to finish its analysis (on the electoral reform) and its own legislative decision so as not to bring forward the eve, because I very much respect what it is going to be as the chamber of origin,” he noted.
He recalled that as a reviewing chamber, in the Senate, “we cannot meddle in their work at this time.”
When questioned that the opposition says that the reform will not pass, as happened in the case of the Electricity Industry Law, he replied: “Let’s see. I am confident that it will.”
Disqualification of opponents
Senators from the parties of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), National Action (PAN) and Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) rejected President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s constitutional reform proposal to modify Mexico’s electoral system, last Thursday 28, just hours after your presentation.
The former head of government of the CDMX, Miguel Ángel Mancera, who coordinates the senators of the PRD, predicted that if the proposal cannot be modified, it will not have the support of the PRD legislators.
Mancera proposed that the proposal be taken to open parliament.
At a press conference, PAN members Damián Zepeda and Kenia López stated that their bench will not cast a single vote for an initiative that proposes to “liquidate” the National Electoral Institute.
For her part, Claudia Anaya, a PRI senator, stated that the reform is based on “resentment” and Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s fixed idea that the election was stolen from him, for which he anticipated that his party would oppose it.
