▲ The Veracruz gave the decisive support to guarantee the emblematic judicial amendment at the beginning of the current legislature last September.Photo Germán Canseco
Andrea Becerril
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, February 22, 2025, p. 6
The vote of Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez is fundamental at a time when Morena in the Senate has several constitutional reforms in front of and together with his allies add 87 votes, just one more than those required for the qualified majority necessary to approve modifications to the Magna Carta.
In the Morena group, most of its 67 members are clear that they cannot do without the controversial legislator who arrived as a PAN to the current legislature initiated on September 1 of last year, who gave the icing the vote required to approve the 11 of that month the emblematic judicial reform.
Morena lacked three votes to get two thirds of the total number of legislators when the legislature began. The figure immediately decreased with the incorporation to their ranks of the two senators who had won with the acronym of the PRD in Michoacán and Tabasco, Araceli Saucedo and José Sabino Herrera, but everything was uncertain the following days, prior to the vote of the reform which allows the election of judges, magistrates and ministers.
On the night of September 10, surprisingly for the PANists, Yunes Márquez endorsed the reform and with its vote completed the 86 necessary for the qualified majority. Likewise, another 15 constitutional modifications later supported.
Months later, the then PRI Cynthia López Castro went to Morena and the number increased to 87, although it is not enough, given that if any senator has any setback or gets sick and his substitute did not reach the session on time, as has happened, as has happened, There is a risk of not achieving the qualified majority.
In addition to this, the Guanajuato Senator Ricardo Sheffield has voted against two constitutional reforms, the most recent the modification to the Infonavit Law and within the Guinda bench, there is talk that it already negotiates its incorporation into another political force.
Given this, most 4T legislators consider that an exit should be sought so that the Morena Honesty and Justice Commission does not deny the affiliation of Yunes to that party. Senator Guadalupe Chavira considered that an option is to be considered adherent and after a while, militant.
Meanwhile, Yunes Márquez commented that he is not worried about what that commission decides, since he is still in the Morena group and He will continue to support
The constitutional reforms of President Sheinbaum.
