The Chamber of Senators will submit to the federal Executive in the next period of regular sessions, which will begin on February 1, the package of amendments to the secondary legislation on electoral matters approved by both legislative chambers, except for the change to the General Law of Institutions and Electoral Procedures (Legipe) that allows the distribution of votes between affiliated political parties, eliminated by the Chamber of Deputies, but pending a new review in the Upper House.
The senators may or may not agree to the modification approved by the lower house to article 12 numeral 2, second paragraph of the Legipe, which eliminated the following normative portion:
“Political parties may nominate candidates under the common candidacy figure. In this case, the logo or emblem of the parties that decide to participate in this modality will appear in the same box of the electoral ballot. The parties must enter into an agreement for the distribution of the votes cast.
Except for said paragraph, the rest of the changes contained in the decree that modifies the Legipe, General Law of Political Parties (LGPP), Organic Law of the Judicial Power of the Federation (LOPJF) and by which the General Law of Media is issued. Challenge in Electoral Matters (LGMIME), the so-called “plan b” of electoral reform, has already been approved by the two legislative chambers of the Congress of the Union.
Hence, by agreement of the plenary chamber, the lower house authorized the Senate, “in accordance with the provisions of section E of constitutional article 72, the federal executive branch forward” the aforementioned decree, “only with what is approved by both Houses”.
The aforementioned fraction provides that if the additions or reforms made by the reviewing chamber, in this case the Senate, are approved by the majority of votes in the chamber of origin, that is, the lower house, they will be returned and that if they were rejected in second review the project in what has been approved in both chambers will be passed to the Executive who, if he has no observations to make, will publish it immediately.
It is expected that the senators, with the vote of Morena and her PVEM, PT and PES allies, will have to agree to the change made at the last minute by their co-religionist federal deputies to the Legipe, and they will approve it.
