The side effect benefited the National Action Party (PAN), which was left with 70 deputies as the second force in the Chamber of Deputies, above the Green Party, which has 60.
In the first session of the Jucopo, the PAN managed to get the agreement that it will preside over the board of directors of the legislative body approved unanimously for one year, from 2025 to 2026. By law, the presidency of the board is rotating, so Morena will lead it the first year, the PAN the second, and the PVEM the last, from 2026 to 2027.
This Thursday, the Chamber of Deputies held its constitutive session and in it the parliamentary groups were preliminarily reconfigured. Morena increased its seats by 21 since yesterday, when the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) confirmed the assignment of plurinominal deputies and with it a Morena bench of 236 legislators, 161 of the majority and 75 pluris. It now has 257.
This was possible because a group of elected deputies affiliated with Morena who competed under the Green Party’s name returned to the green party. On Wednesday night, the Green Party formalized the transfer of 15 of those deputies in order to give Morena total control of the Jucopo for three years.
However, his parliamentary coordinator, Carlos Puente, assured that this is part of normality, the law allows it and all the parliamentary groups do it, “it is not greed.”
This type of transfer also occurred today with the Labor Party (PT): six “cachirules” who competed under the yellow star party’s acronym returned to Morena.
The PT, which would have a bench of 51 deputies – 38 majority deputies and 13 pluris – was left with only 47, having lost four. Six were Morena “cachirules” on their lists, but two others were PT members who appeared under the acronym of Morena, so in the final count it “only” lost four.
According to the president of the Political Coordination Board of the Chamber of Deputies, Ricardo Monreal, the basis for this reconfiguration of the benches is the agreement of the National Electoral Institute (INE) that detected the effective affiliations in the coalition parties.
In its review, the INE found that 17 Morena members ran for the PVEM and six Morena members ran for the PT.
In addition, a Green Party member, Raúl Álvarez Villaseñor, won in district 4 of Zapopan nominated by Morena and two PT members: Miriam de los Ángeles Vázquez Ruiz, from district one of Oaxaca, and Olga Juliana Elizondo Guerra, from district seven of Tamaulipas, also appeared identified as Morena members.
However, these transfers, at least for now, are not reflected.
