The deputies and senators of the National Action Party (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) y Citizen Movement (MC), will not attend the respective sessions that the Chamber of Deputies and Senators will have this Friday, to declare the constitutional validity of the reform to the Judiciary.
After more than 17 Congresses locals approved the reform, the Boards of Directors of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies They called a session to declare its validity, since these were changes to the Constitution and thus, to satisfy the president. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said he will enact the reform to the Judicial Branch on September 15.
Separately, opposition coordinators said that attending the procedural session, where no vote is required, would endorse the changes to the Judiciary made by Morena and its allies.
“We will not attend the session to validate this constitutional reform, it is illegal, it is illegitimate and it cannot be endorsed as constitutional,” declared the coordinator of the senators of the PAN, Guadalupe Murguía.
He accused that the Congresses state-run companies approved it “in a submissive, hasty manner, without complying with parliamentary procedure.”
For his part, the coordinator of the senators of MC, Clemente Castaneda, He considered that the session “is the party of the regime, the consummation of the robbery of the nation and therefore we are not going to attend that celebration, so to speak, we are going to set our position on this matter in the next few hours.”
The parliamentary coordinators of the PRI They also reported that they will not attend the session this Friday. Senate at 2:00 p.m., nor to the Chamber of Deputies at 6:30 p.m. to validate a legislative process in which “pressures, threats and violence prevailed, not only against opposition legislators, but also against students and workers of the Judiciary who demonstrated peacefully.”
Meanwhile, the president of the Political Coordination Board of the Chamber of Deputies, Ricardo Monreal, He explained that the declaration of constitutionality is a formal procedure that concludes the legislative process, so it is an act that does not require a vote.
THEY WILL CHALLENGE THE REFORM
In addition to this, the leaders of the opposition benches in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies They warned that they will challenge the reform by all means at their disposal.
The senator and national leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno, He said that his party will go to national and international bodies in the coming days to challenge and denounce the inconsistencies of the legislative process.
The senator of MC, Clemente Castaneda, He reiterated that his party is analyzing everything within its reach and “we are going to exhaust all the avenues at our disposal to overthrow it.”
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2024-09-17 02:39:37