The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced that he already has a plan B planned in case his proposal for constitutional reform in electoral matters is not approved in the Mexican Congress because the opposition parties have given a resounding no to his idea.
constitutional reform and since it is so important that there be democracy, well, it is likely that I will send a reform to the law that does not require 2/3 parts, a Plan B ”, he proposed.
Anticipating what is likely to happen in the Chamber of Deputies and Senators, the Mexican president proposes sending an initiative that modifies the current Electoral Law, which would change the statutes of the National Electoral Institute and the Tribunal, which would only require a simple majority of the Mexican Congress to be approved.
“It is possible that, without violating the Constitution, it can be proposed in a law or in a reform to the electoral law, that the advisers and magistrates of the electoral court of the INE and of the Electoral Court be elected, whichever is It is possible that there are no multinominals, that instead of 300 they are 300. See if there is, in accordance with what the Constitution establishes, the possibility of making a reform”, he specified. March for Democracy”, last Sunday 54 in November, where civil organizations and opponents came out in defense of the National Electoral Institute.
“What the opponents who are already together, PRI, PAN and PRD want, what they want is for a vote to be made because they know that it may not reach the 333 votes in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Chamber of Senators it is the same, this happened when the Electricity Reform”, he commented.
The constitutional reform the Mexican president raises the disappearance of multi-member deputies ; lower the resources granted to political parties; lower the salaries of senior INE officials who earn more than the president of Mexico, among other measures.
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