Victor Ballinas
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, February 2, 2022, p. 4
Photojournalists and cameramen were evicted from the press balcony located on the second floor of the plenary hall of the Senate, where their places are assigned to cover the ordinary sessions.
Parliamentary protection staff asked them to leave the place by order of the board of directors
, chaired by the morenista Olga Sánchez Cordero. The situation occurred when the harsh debate began over the case of the disappearance of the special commission for Veracruz.
It was a few minutes of eviction, since, due to the protests of the photographers and cameramen, they were allowed to return.
Then the heated debate began on the disappearance of the aforementioned commission between accusations by senators from Morena, MC and the PAN.
In the midst of that discussion, Sánchez Cordero, who stated that she found out about the eviction through social networks, clarified that she did not order it, nor did any member of the board of directors. He offered an apology for the events that occurred. At the end of the session, Sánchez Cordero and the members of the board of directors explained to reporters, photographers and cameramen that they did not give that instruction.
The order
The technical secretary of the board of directors, Pluvio Rivera, clarified that he gave the order based on a written agreement, regarding regulating the presence of senators in the plenary hall.
That agreement stipulates that they must not be present more than 50 senators in the ordinary face-to-face session at times of high contagion due to the pandemic
.
Pluvio Rivera also explained that there were many photographers and cameramen, in addition to the fact that the Congress Channel asked for space to be opened to place one of its teams
.
Surely, he reported, the order was misunderstood.
Morena’s coordinator, Ricardo Monreal, stressed that The act of eviction was improper. Pluvio Rivera told me that he ordered it for health reasons. I told him no, that it is not worth altering anything and that the media will continue to have their space and the freedom to attend public sessions. we apologize
.
Sánchez Cordero, also said, for his part, that It was a mistake, it shouldn’t have happened and it won’t happen again
.
