✅ With 69 votes and 53 against, it is approved in general and the non-reserved articles of the opinion that reforms two laws on electoral matters, and that creates the General Law of the Means of Challenge in Electoral Matters.
— Senate of Mexico (@senadomexicano)
December 15, 2022
The Chamber of Deputies plans to meet at 8 in the morning this Thursday, as it called and is already waiting to receive the minutes to give them quick processing.
As the leader of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal, had anticipated in what was voted today in that chamber and in general -because during the first hours of this Thursday there will be a debate in particular with possible changes- if 6 were excluded ” blocks of unconstitutionality”, each one with a set of articles that exceeded the Constitution.
But 15 more blocks were maintained with another group of articles and fractions that would also exceed what the Magna Carta says.
I cannot share that the Magna Carta is ignored or mocked.
I am a man who teaches law. I am an idealist, not a fierce pragmatist. Law is the soul of society; without it, chaos and anarchy would reign. pic.twitter.com/l7AuMKpy0F— Ricardo Monreal A. (@RicardoMonrealA)
December 15, 2022
Thus, Plan B of the electoral reform resulted, at least in what was generally approved, with the fundamental changes proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, since it cut the structure, budget, perceptions, and powers of the National Electoral Institute (INE).
In the second minute that will be put to consideration once the first passes in general and in particular, the Morenista proposals raised in the initiative of the bench of cherry deputies in terms of government propaganda and that they seek to allow, with the argument of freedom of expression, any public manifestation of public servants – verbal, material or in networks – regardless of whether there are ongoing electoral processes.
This, via court rulings, had been considered contrary to the Constitution for endangering equity in electoral contests, a principle that according to their criteria should be privileged over freedom of expression since no right is absolute.
The part partially “corrected” and eliminated by the senators in the opinion of the first minute, was basically what was introduced in the early hours of the morning by the Chamber of Deputies and which favored its allies Labor Party (PT) and Green Party (PVEM). ) and known as Plan C, some elements of which were retained.
