The president of the Commission, Morena deputy Leonel Godoy, recalled that last week the coordinator of the Morenistas, Ricardo Monreal, proposed a consultation scheme before proceeding to the ruling.
Deputy Alejandro Domínguez, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), stated that if the intention is to plan a restricted consultation, it would be better to proceed to vote on the reform now.
“If it is to give us all the finger and pretend that a consultation was held and at the end of the day leave things the same, then it is better to upload the opinion again so that we can debate it and they can now get the reform that is the aspiration they have, right?”, he said in the Constitutional Points Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
The proposal for forums where Morena will have the majority and will appoint speakers is restrictive, questioned deputy Iraís Reyes, from Movimiento Ciudadano.
PT deputy Lilia Aguilar questioned the opposition’s rejection, when she had previously requested forums.
“As the classic Enrique Peña Nieto would say, they are not happy with anything. A couple of weeks ago it was seen that this was going to be discussed in this commission, there were the unbridled cries of the opposition saying that we were going to override everyone and that we were going to approve it overnight.”
Aguilar Gil proposed, and managed, to modify the consultation agreement, which would initially be in two blocks, and four speakers per block, at the proposal of the parliamentary groups, according to their strength. That is, of 16 speakers, the majority of the speakers will be proposed by Morena.
At the proposal of the PT, it was doubled to four blocks of meetings, inviting the academy, electoral experts and social sectors and there would be 32 guests, as suggested.
Meanwhile, for National Action (PAN), which also voted against, the vice coordinator, Noemí Luna, said that this vote does not mean that she is against the reform to combine revocation and federal elections.
He even said that his party seeks the same thing to happen with the revocation of governors, which is why he proposes that it be incorporated into the reform.
But he questioned whether it is approved to go to forums without methodology, times, places. “Consultations cannot degenerate into partisan assemblies, open parliaments should not become simple scenes where people are heard but not attended to, and citizen participation deserves respect, not simulation.”
For this reason, “we cannot accompany an agreement without clear rules. Even the agreement that was made known to the members of this commission a week ago stipulated that the first consultation would be today. In other words, we are not clear about the dates or who will be attended to and no, we are not opposed to dialogue, what we are opposed to is improvisation,” he said.
