Nestor Jimenez
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, January 19, 2026, p. 4
For the Citizen Movement (MC), this is not the time to discuss electoral reform, since doing so could divert attention from important issues for Mexico, such as tension with the US government or security in the country, said Juan Ignacio Zavala, vice coordinator of the Emecista deputies and one of the party’s spokespersons for this issue.
Although he trusted that if consensus is not achieved among all political forces the discussion will be postponed, he said that if the debate on the amendment begins, MC will propose that it should be analyzed how to prevent money from organized crime from entering the campaigns, an issue that, he asserted, has not been part of the majority bloc’s agenda. In addition, he said that there should be a transition to “electoral justice” in which the number of legislators from each party reflects the number of votes it obtained.
“Instead of looking at how we can grow, increase investment, promote consumption, we want to discuss electoral events. Instead of looking at how to deal with the threat that the United States also represents in terms of security, and that posed by the cartels, we are discussing an electoral reform, when it seems to me that the diagnosis is incorrect; that is not the country’s big problem,” he stressed in an interview.
He pointed out that the tables and forums that are planned to be held in the Congress of the Union are spaces that could be used to discuss the main points of this moment in the country.
The former general secretary of agreement of this political force, indicated that his party has not commented in detail on the electoral amendment because they have not yet presented it. What has transcended, he considered, are “pure occurrences around the subject.” He specified that MC did not participate with any proposal before the Presidential Commission for Electoral Reform because “it is not a plural body,” so he called for the debate to be brought to Congress.
Zavala warned that another issue of concern for Movimiento Ciudadano is that Morena builds a reform without consensus with the rest of the political parties, which, he said, excludes the opposition and even its own allies. He pointed out that the previous modifications on the matter have been made with the unanimous support or at least of the majority of political forces.
He argued that electoral reforms are usually promoted by those who lose and “suffer the injustices and inequities of the system, and not the other way around, by those who have benefited from the system in recent years.”
