The national president of the PAN, Marko Cortés Mendoza, announced the presentation to the Congress of the Union of a constitutional reform initiative in electoral matters to establish the second round in the presidential election, eliminate the governability clause in the integration of the Chamber of Deputies to avoid overrepresentation and that the National Electoral Institute (INE) organize primary elections of political parties to designate their candidates for elected positions.
He anticipated that if the head of the federal Executive insists on his proposal to subtract autonomy from the electoral bodies, among other points, he will suffer the same fate as his initiative for constitutional reform in electrical matters, whose decree has already been rejected in the Chamber of Deputies with the opposition party votes.
“Very punctually: the proposal that the president (of the Republic) has announced, electoral, is autocratic, destroys the democratic model of our country, of balance, of counterweight, of an arbitrator, and that is why we are not going to accompany,” he said.
National Action will present “a counterproposal that strengthens the institutions, that strengthens the presidential figure with the support of the great majority with the second electoral round; that there be a pure representation in the Chamber of Deputies regarding the votes that each political party had, removing the over-representation; going to primary elections but mandatory for all parties, on the same day, organized by the INE (…) We say clearly: everything destructive to our country will not happen”.
Regarding the constitutional reform announced by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the National Guard (GN) to be attached to the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), the PAN leader also advanced the rejection of the PAN.
“We will not go in any direction that further militarizes what is already militarized, because in our country we are experiencing strong militarization, and not only in security tasks, we are already experiencing it in civilian tasks, which should not be distracting today and exposing the Armed Forces,” he said.
“Forward”
Asked if after the rejection of the opposition to his proposal for constitutional reform in electricity matters, it is still in his plans to present the initiatives that he has already announced in electoral matters and the National Guard, President López Obrador replied: “Of course. It is that it is a matter of principles (…) It is that it has to be done”.
He explained, during his conference yesterday, that it is not about “winning, winning and winning”, in reference to his initiatives presented to Congress because if that were the case “well, we are going to buy them or, to not say it so strongly, we are going to co-opt them ( opposition legislators) and it is achieved without problem. There are elections that they would like to exchange for votes. Do not! Politics is an ethical imperative. So let’s go forward.”
