The leaders and coordinators of the three opposition parties, National Action (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) y Citizen Movement (MC), accused the ruling regime of pressure and threats to get their senators to vote in favor of the reform.
The senator and national leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno, He said that his party has been subjected to “brutal” pressure, including “threats from the ruling party never seen before in Congress and in the country” to approve the reform of the Judicial Branch in the Senate.
Although he did not specify who of them or from whom, he accused that they have received offers of tens of millions of pesos to migrate to the bench of Morena or be absent on the day of the voting.
He also added that they have been threatened with factional use of the prosecutor’s offices against the senators and their families and even pressure from the National Electoral Institutealthough he did not give details of how or from whom.
Meanwhile, the coordinator of the senators of the PAN, Guadalupe Murguia, He also acknowledged that “there have been calls, insistence, invitations, offers to some members of our Parliamentary Group and they have remained firm. So, I know that this has also happened in other parties,” he accused.
The coordinator of the emecista bench, Clemente Castaneda, He accused that “in the last few hours there has been a campaign of pressure and discredit against one of our colleagues,” referring to Senator Daniel Barreda, who yesterday publicly committed to vote against the reform.
In order to stop the reform of the Judiciary proposed by the president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, The 43 opposition senators have parliamentary and legal strategies ready that will allow them to be present at the session, vote against and prevent the Morena regime from having a qualified majority, that is, 86 votes.
The three opposition parliamentary groups are also preparing a legal strategy to prevent Morena and its allies from trying to exercise a qualified majority with 85 votes when there should be 86since there are precedents of the Court.
Denies pressures
“I have talked, I am talking about the PRI, I have talked with some of them, we have tried to convince them of the historical significance… (We do not offer them) anything,” said the leader of the senators of Morena.
He denied that money or positions are offered to the opponents, however, he mentioned that in the case of Araceli Saucedo y Sabino Herrera, senators of the PRD those who joined the Morena Parliamentary Group did receive a reward.
“They joined the Parliamentary Group and when the committee presidencies were to be decided, all of us unanimously told them that, in gratitude and recognition, they would each have a committee presidency, and they were given their wish,” he explained.
“We hope to convince, not just one or two, but several senators… There is no Plan B when it comes to politics, “We try to convince in a good way,” he said.
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