The electric reform “is dead, this whole circus has to do with electroshocks”: MC

The deputy of the Citizen Movement and secretary of the Committee on Constitutional Points, Salvador Caro Cabrera said that the postponement of the plenary session to Sunday, April 17 to discuss electricity reform is because Morena, PVEM and PT do not have enough votes to approve it.

Caro Cabrera considered that “the reform, in the background, is dead; this whole circus has to do with electroshocks” and added that he even sees little chance of Sunday's session taking place.

“I don't think I'll be seeing a session next Sunday. The truth is that the whole process began with great pride, with much contempt for all political parties and, in that sense, it is equally illusory, fictitious, that there will be a session on Sunday. From now on to that day it is certain that something else will happen and they will postpone this issue until they can dilute the legislative defeat they are going to have,” said the legislator after the Board of Directors approved to hold the session scheduled for this Tuesday until next Easter Sunday.

However, he warned that opposition parties must be very attentive to an early morning on the part of Morena to open a surprise session and put the opinion to the vote even without the other parties, since it is a constitutional reform “it is possible to vote with two-thirds of the deputies present. That is why the risk that once there is a quorum, if access to everyone else is obstructed, they may create a ruse to be able to send the resolution to the Senate.”

In this regard, Caro Cabrera said that precautions must be taken by the parliamentary groups of the PAN, PRI, PRD and the MC itself to avoid such a maneuver.

He said that another alternative to try to approve it is for the ruling party to start releasing “cannons” among legislators of parties that are not part of the 4T coalition.

“We do not exclude that this is the stage in which they will be working, that they will explore between now and Sunday. If the conditions are not met, they will continue to postpone until the issue is diluted,” said the member of the Citizen Movement bench.

Asked whether he has received pressure in particular, he assured that “no, not really. We, as a Citizen Movement, are not in the negotiation scheme with Q4. We are a compact group, very defined, there are 24 of us and it does not fit them to achieve enough votes for reform, either morally or quantitatively”.

He added that in this reform the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador cannot count on his party for two basic reasons: it affects users, who struggle to pay their tariffs, and it puts the future of the next generations at risk by privileging polluting energy to generate electricity.

This Tuesday, Morena called on her supporters to march from Mexico City's Zócalo to the San Lázaro Legislative Palace, with the slogan of demanding that legislators fulfill their “patriotic duty” and vote for the energy project sent by the President of the Republic to guarantee the rectory of the state on the electricity market through the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).

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