Andrea Becerril
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, October 19, 2025, p. 4
The legislative work in the Senate is complicated by the decision of the coordinators of all the political forces to meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, since this causes the committee meetings to be combined with the work in the plenary session, despite the fact that this is prohibited in the internal regulations of that Chamber and there is even discomfort among some legislators due to the work overloads that this implies.
There are voices, like that of Guadalupe Chavira, from Morena, who considers it necessary to return to session on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so that on Wednesdays there is “a break” and the meetings of the ruling commissions can be held.
He warned that there is a heavy agenda to clear in the remainder of the period that ends on December 15, since the gloss of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first Report was already tied with the discussion of the Income Law and the fiscal package, and there are pending initiatives from the president, so, in his opinion, “there is an obligation for the Senate to find a better planning route for legislative work.”
Last Wednesday the 15th, while the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, appeared before the plenary session of the Senate, for the gloss of the Presidential Report, the Finance and First Legislative Studies commissions met.
The Science and Technology, Health and Sports commissions also met, so the plenary hall was empty at times, while Ebrard responded to the few legislators present.
The vice president of the Senate, Verónica Camino Farjat, assumed the leadership of the debate, since the president, Laura Itzel Castillo, went out to give a joint conference with the head of the Political Coordination Board, Adán Augusto López, to report on the delivery of 800 million pesos to the Treasury of the Federation, from the trust maintained by that Chamber of Congress.
The session lasted until the evening, since with a waiver of procedures the minutes on the Amparo Law were put up for discussion. This happens every Tuesday and Wednesday, and the situation must change, commented Claudia Anaya, senator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The problem is that a large part of the senators from Morena and the parties of Labor, Green Ecologist of Mexico, National Action, PRI and Movimiento Ciudadano prefer to meet for only two days to be able to return to their states no later than Thursday morning, to fulfill their “territorial” tasks.
