With the aim of guaranteeing that the citizen’s vote in elections is respected, the deputy of the Parliamentary Group of the PAN in the local Congress, Claudia Montes de Oca del Olmopresented a initiative to sanction a deputies that once elected change parties.
In this regard, the PAN legislator explained that this initiative provides for reforms to the Political Constitution of Mexico City, the Institutions and Electoral Code, Procedures, the Law of Administrative Responsibilities and the Organic Law of Congress.
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“We propose that any deputy who decides to change political parties once elected, lose their position and be disqualified from holding any public office for a period of between 6 and 9 years,” he explained.
With this initiative, he indicated, “the aim is to defend the citizen vote and strengthen the system of checks and balances, warning that a legislative branch in which deputies can move from one side to another without restrictions is a Congress vulnerable to manipulation.
At the time, the Coordinator of the PAN parliamentary group, Andrés Atayde, pointed out that the grasshoppers “not only implies betraying the political parties that proposed them, but also betraying the neighbors who voted for these grasshoppers thinking that at the time they represented a project.” political”.
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Finally, Representative Montes de Oca called to stop “rewarding grasshoppers with impunity.”
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