Sunday, October 6

Kamala Harris' visit to Mexican Senate canceled

The United States Governments and Mexico and the directive of the Senate Mexican canceled the meeting of the Vice-President Kamala Harris with the legislators .

The vice president of The United States will visit Mexico next Monday the 7th to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a meeting with the full Senate was also scheduled for Tuesday the 8th.

The US delegation valued that, given electoral polarization, it would not be convenient to hold the meeting with legislators from antagonistic parties.

President @ lopezobrador _ will receive on June 8 the visit of the US Vice President Kamala Harris ( @ VP ). In the @ senadomexicano we recognize the importance of this meeting, due to the coincidence of approaches on common challenges. My column at: https://t.co/qFp7FxQIja pic.twitter.com/ 5qWq2J5D1S

– Ricardo Monreal A. (@RicardoMonrealA) June 3, 2021

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The issue was put to the consideration of the Mexican Foreign Ministry as well as the Senate Board of Directors. The three parties agreed that it was more convenient to postpone that meeting.

The president of the Senate Political Coordination Board, Richard Monreal , revealed that because the post-election environment could overshadow Harris’s rapprochement with parliamentarians, it was better to cancel the meeting.

“The invitation that we ran to Vice President Kamala Harris, it was done because of her quality as vice president, but particularly as President of the United States Senate, so a meeting with her on her first visit to Mexico was a natural decision; however, said invitation has had mixed reactions among fellow parliamentarians ”, explained the legislator through a video.

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“The Senate has sought to resolve issues by consensus; However, now there are some voices that have expressed themselves and fear that the electoral process in Mexico and the polarization that is indisputably dominating the public space, overshadow a meeting that should enjoy the most favorable environment ”, he valued.

“The Senate has taken care not to be a factor of stridency and to be a terrain of less confrontation or permanent non-confrontation,” he said.

Ricardo Monreal confirmed that the decision to cancel the meeting had been taken in agreement with the governments of the two countries.

Kamala Harris’s entourage overtook the Government Mexican that there will be a second visit between September and October and On occasion, the meeting with the senators could be rescheduled.