The president of the board of directors summoned the 66 deputies at 9:00 am on October 18 to install the permanent constituent and discuss the minutes.
The reform to extend the presence of the Army in the streets to 2028, with “parliamentary controls”, was approved by the Chamber of Deputies with a qualified majority of 339 votes, and with the opposition divided.
To endorse it, they joined Morena and their allied legislators from the Institutional Revolutionary Parties (PRI) and 3 of the 15 of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Macarena Chávez, Javier Huacus Esquivel and Mauricio Prieto, all from Michoacán.
That fractured the Va por México coalition, and without the PRI and with the PRD divided, the opposition remained in a minority of 155 votes, with which they could not stop the reform, because with 496 deputies present, 334 votes would have been enough. Of the PRI only two voted against, Sue Ellen Bernal and Francisco Yunes.
