The “unprecedented” interruption in the Senate
The gift to López Obrador was tainted by social protest. It was not the first time he broke into the Senate, but it was an unprecedented slam that took the legislators out of their legislative house and made them hold sessions in exile, in the Casona de Xicoténcatl..
When they had already cried on the platform and demanded to “pack their bags in their underwear” to go to the rescue of the orange senator Barreda, in a second session called to accelerate the Judicial Reform, the senators were interrupted by the “slamming of the door” of judicial workers who entered the legislative headquarters by force.
Men and women, workers of the Judiciary, “armed” with rattles, megaphones, Mexican flags, and holiday horns, managed to force open the bars of the bunker that the Senate had become, and slammed the door in the style of the left.
They forced open a glass door with kicks and shoves – lacking crowbars and lock picks, the tools commonly used for breaking in – and after more than an hour of trying, they entered the Senate plenary session in a mob, along with the press, all covered in foam from fire extinguishers, used by security personnel to repel them.
“This repression is from López Obrador!” they shouted when they received the mistreatment, “no violence, no violence!” they calmed the mood.
By the time they entered the plenary hall, those who usually occupied the stands ran away. Outnumbered by the protesters, some 300 people, they went to another venue under police guard to hold the session.
At least four people were injured, three fell, one, presumably an advisor to Morena, was on the verge of a heart attack, but the protest continued.
In a sign of the new times, only PAN and MC members stayed to receive them, who, being currently in the opposition, accused the government of persecution. With the tables turned, Morena member Fernández Noroña, the one who took the stands, denounced from the new headquarters that they were victims of a violent intrusion and demanded respect and high-level debate.
