Gutiérrez Luna, in favor of punishing negligent legislators

Fernando Camacho Servín

La Jornada newspaper
Friday, July 25, 2025, p. 7

The president of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna (Morena), defended the right of legislators to take vacations, but also criticized those who are absent from the sessions after passing entrance list and even order their advisors to vote initiatives instead of virtual sessions.

When asked about this practice, detected at a recent meeting of the Human Rights Commission, the legislator emphasized that it is not correct, because The work is for the deputies and is personal. I want to make a call to those colleagues to personally attend commissions, meetings, meetings, plenary and all legislative work.

Gutiérrez Luna – who last month paid the insertion of a prominent message in the social network X to try to demonstrate its proximity to President Claudia Sheinbaum – considered feasible to legislate so that this type of irregularities no longer happens.

I even think it is different to miss, to try to make an advisor vote for a legislator. You can miss many things: by illness, for permission, for accusations, for whatever, but the other is something unacceptable, and I think it should legislate in the regulation or in the law so that there is any consequenceincluding discounting the payment of that day to the parliamentarian.

On the other hand, he indicated that the constitutional initiative to combat extortion was already turned to the Constitutional Point Commission, and estimated that in August We can have a lighter route On its discussion and eventual approval, so that in September you can go to plenary.

On another issue, Gutiérrez Luna said that the public visibility achieved by the issue of the sanction against a citizen for criticizing his wife, deputy Diana Karina Barreras (PT), and the accusations of various sectors for the severity of the punishment, is related to an alleged alleged media campaign promoted by the National Strategic Litigation Council, an organization that, he said, is promoted by businessman Claudio X. González.