What will happen to the electoral reform proposed by AMLO

The current regular session of the LXV Legislature will formally conclude on April 30, and the Electoral Reform initiative announced by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is still pending, which may come as soon as the Executive so decides and if necessary bring to the Congress of the Union to an extraordinary session.

Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, president of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies, commented that next week the possibilities for carrying out an extraordinary will be discussed and recalled that the head of the Executive announced in previous weeks that he will send the reform initiatives to the Constitution for the Electoral Law and the issue of the National Guard.

The Morena deputy said that they will wait for these projects to arrive to try to promote them and assured that they will dialogue with arguments with the other parliamentary groups.

On April 17, Morena failed to reach a consensus with the other parties that the electricity reform initiative will advance beyond the lower house, which represented the first legislative defeat for an initiative of the head of the executive, who in less than a day sent for approval a reform to the Mining Law, which was endorsed in both chambers within 72 hours.

On the 18th, López Obrador admitted that the scenario was not the best for his reforms for the remainder of the six-year term, as the parties that are not part of Morena's alliance warned that they would vote against the new Electoral Law and on the matter of the National Guard, however, he said that he would still present them with the risk that he would not succeed the favorable vote of the PAN, PRI, PRD and MC.

“There are elections that they would like to change by votes; no, politics is an ethical imperative and we are going to move forward,” said the reference to the elections that will take place next June in which six governorships will be renewed.

As for the Senate of the Republic, it has only two face-to-face sessions scheduled for the remainder of the current regular session.

The pending initiatives of President López Obrador are of a constitutional nature, and once sent to the Congress of the Union they will require a favorable vote by qualified majority, that is, two thirds of the legislators present in the plenary session of each of the chambers.

However, Morena has a majority in Congress, so through the Standing Committee she could promote an extraordinary session, and here it is necessary to remember that the minimum quorum to hold a session is 50% plus one, which means that 251 of the 500 deputies must be present in San Lazarus and 65 of the 500 deputies must be present in the Senate. the 128 representatives.

The proposal of the President of the Republic seeks that electoral councillors and magistrates be elected by popular vote and candidates will be nominated by the executive branch itself in addition to the legislative and judicial branch.

Another of the main points contained in this proposal is the elimination of deputies and senators of proportional or multi-member representation, a measure that has been criticized by the director of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Ciro Murayama, who believes that this political maneuver strengthens the ruling party and reduces the size of their opponents.

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