Credentialing
From this August 20th to August 28thdeputies and senators will go to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to process and receive their identification cards as legislators and their access to the constituent session.
First, they will start with those senators and deputies who were elected by relative majority, since the National Electoral Institute (INE) has not yet assigned the legislators for proportional representation, which will be on September 23. The “pluris” legislators, as they are known, will attend after that date.
Discussion of reforms
He August 22 and 26 There will be discussion and voting on two reforms by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which are related to the National Guard and the Judiciary.
The first is the National Guard, which will be discussed in the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, August 22. This reform establishes that the security body will be under the command and control of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena).
On August 26, the same committee will discuss the reform of the Judicial Branch, which had more than 100 changes with respect to the one sent by President López Obrador, but maintains its essence of judges and ministers being elected by direct vote.
Following the approval of both reforms, they will be passed to the full House of Representatives and, according to the next coordinator of the Morena party, the reform to the Judicial Branch will be discussed between September 2 and 3.
Sessions
On August 29, elected deputies and senators will meet in the session hall to hold the constituent session, which is the session held in each Chamber of the Congress of the Union and whose purpose is to declare its legal constitution in order to be officially installed.
The members of the Board of Directors must have been elected by August 31 at the latest; if not, the Board of Deans will exercise the powers and faculties granted to the Board and its members by law.
On September 1, at 5:00 p.m., the General Congress (composed of senators and deputies) will meet in a joint session in the session hall of the Chamber of Deputies to inaugurate its ordinary sessions.
At the beginning of each ordinary session period, the President of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies will declare aloud: “The Congress of the United Mexican States opens today (date) the first (or second) ordinary session period of the (first, second or third) year of the (ordinal number) Legislature.”
