From that internal election will come Morena’s proposal to preside over the table, which will be submitted to the decision of the Senate that same day in the afternoon, he explained.
He admitted that although he is in talks with other parliamentary groups, he sees it unlikely that an opposition legislator will preside over the board of directors, if there are internal disagreements.
During the 64th Legislature, which began in 2018, Morena, together with its allies Labor Party (PT), Social Encounter (PES) and Verde (PVEM), formed the majority bloc in the Senate, and that is why the icing party monopolized the table Senate directive.
That position is currently headed by Senator Olga Sánchez Cordero, who returned to the Senate at the end of 2021, after almost three years of heading the Ministry of the Interior, just when the dispute between five Morenista legislators who aspired to the presidency of the Senate was taking shape.
Before, in 2019-2020, a conflict broke out when the now licensed senator Martí Batres sought re-election and accused Monreal of buying votes and exercising threats and blackmail, a process from which Senator Mónica Fernández became president, with the votes of Morena and Social Meeting (PES).
For the presidency of the 2020-2021 table there was also conflict, because although the senator who was elected, Eduardo Ramírez from Moreno, presumed unanimity, Batres and Senator Antares Vázquez also accused that there was no agreement and that there was anti-democracy.
On this occasion, it is up to a senator from Morena to preside over the board of directors, however, given that it is a decision that does not require a qualified majority, but only a simple majority, and that the Morena bloc has lost senators, the leader of the PAN legislators, Julen Rementería, has suggested that the opposition could reach that position when the decision is voted on in the full Senate.
They have left the bench of Morena Lilly Téllez, who went to National Action (PAN), and Germán Martínez, who went to the Plural Group, while the allies of the PT also lost spaces: Nancy de la Sierra and Alejandra de León , both integrated today to the Plural Group.
Due to these changes, Rementería explained that the position of the board of directors of the Senate is elected by simple majority. “Neither of the two (blocks, Morena or the opposition) is guaranteed enough votes among the 128 senators to be able to achieve that majority, so let’s not rule out the possibility that the containment block can build an option,” he said. .
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Regarding the plenary session of Morena, which will be on August 30 and 31, Monreal Ávila reported that the Secretary of Economy, Tatiana Clouthier, will be summoned to the plenary session of the Morena party to address the issue of the consultation on the interpretation of the T-MEC in energy matters.
The Secretaries of the Interior will also be called, Adán Augusto López, the Secretary of Energy; Rocío Nahle; that of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, and the head of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, among others. The head of Infrastructure and Communications, Jorge Arganis, could also join in to address the airport problem.
