Mayor Luján took advantage of the delivery to launch harangues in his speech before Congress

The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, September 2, 2024, p. 11

Shouting, from the platform where he made a clean sweep of the opposition and addressed the Comradesthe Secretary of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde Luján, broke the protocol of the last Report of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

He did so, moreover, without being on the agenda of the session of the Congress of the Union, and in a tone that led to what was coming: the cries of out, out, out! of an irritated PAN.

In contrast to the austere nature of her speech last year, the candidate to lead Morena first gave a political message – which the PAN claimed was partisan and a propaganda MC – and then delivered the sixth Report, which the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ifigenia Martínez (Morena), raised in her arms.

While shaking her fist in the air, the official said that the text It represents the struggle of many years, not only of one man, but of millions of women and men who decided to accompany him many years ago. and they did not give up.

Bucket of cold water for those of blue and white

During the session – in which only Omar García Harfuch and Manlio Fabio Beltrones were absent from the Senate – the PAN party remained silent, which was broken by booing the official, who raised her voice even more.

In a brief summary of the report, he considered the economic state of the country, The peso weighs more as a currency in the worldand said that because of the results It is no coincidence that a few months ago more than 35 million Mexicans decided that the second level of the transformation should continue. and that the first president was a woman, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

The statement that sparked the PAN was the one in which Alcalde said that Perhaps one of the most important legacies that the President of Mexico will leave us for the future is that, if at some point in the future those who believed themselves to be the owners of Mexico return for their privileges, the new generations will have the recipe, the already proven path, which is that only the people can save the people and that only the organized people can save the nation..

From the depleted ranks of the PAN, the booing and shouts of “I’m not going to be here” increased. out, out, out!which Morena and its allies returned with It is an honor to be with Obrador!

In the surrounding seats, those who were his electoral allies, the PRI members, only remained silent.

If the blue and white Defining itself as an opposition in resistance, the PRI anticipated a position of good behavior, explained in Marcela Guerra’s speech before the report: We define ourselves as a party of political position, not as one of irreducible political opposition..

The official then ignored the opposition and addressed Morena and its allies: “Comrades: I inform you that the President has decided not to use his power to present a preferential initiative. This chamber has the constitutional reform initiatives presented by him on February 5. It is up to all of you, true defenders of the people, to have the final say..

Still at the end, while the PRI members left the room in rejection of the reform to the Judicial Branch, the PAN demanded that the minutes of the session include a reprimand to the official for deliver a partisan message.

By a show of hands, the new majority rejected the request.

With information from Andrea Becerril, Georgina Saldierna, Fernando Camacho, Nestor Jimenez and Enrique Mendez