Enrique Mendez
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 19, 2025, p. 8
Instead of approving the reform initiatives that are pending, the committees of the Chamber of Deputies voted on agreements to freeze them for up to three months and resume them starting in February, when the next regular session begins.
On the agenda, the commissions have 2,946 initiatives – of these, 944 are from Morena –, according to data from the Information Service for Parliamentary Statistics (Infopal), and only five commissions account for 37.7 percent of that backlog.
These are the Treasury commissions, with 325 unaddressed initiatives; of Justice, with 311; Health, with 222; Labor and Social Security, with 149, and Regime, Regulations and Parliamentary Practices, with 103 proposals.
Until now, of the 3,324 initiatives that have been received from the Executive, the Senate, the local legislatures and the federal deputies, the Chamber has rejected 41, another 176 have been withdrawn and the plenary session has only approved 161; This is an advance of just 4.8 percent. Of these, 22 are reforms to the Constitution and another 16 are new laws.
By regulation, the commissions must convene at least one session each month, but the majority convened in the last days of the session exclusively to vote on the agreements “that determine the matters that are considered convenient to extend.”
In addition, the board of directors began to notify the commissions that the majority of matters for their consideration are about to be precluded.
Yesterday, Ricardo Monreal pointed out that the next period of sessions will start with an initial list of topics; among others, the laws on Contentious Administrative Procedures and another to promote the social economy.
