With moreover’s backing and a panist majority, the Congress of Baja California approved the constitutional amendment to extend Jaime Bonilla’s period of government for 2 to 5 years.
21 votes in favor were enough for the local Congress to endorse the reform of the Eighth Constitutional Transitory, requested by morena’s local deputy, Victor Morán, on the grounds that a two-year term would represent “substantial expenditure for the erario “while a 5-year term will benefit the local economy.
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According to the news portal Zeta, the vote was supported by the entire panist bench, with the exception of the deputy Miguel Antonio Osuna Millán who always remained against reform.
The blue-white support is given in an extraordinary session even though in recent months the members of its bench showed no interest in this reform because they said that the issue of enlargement had already expired.
With the approval of this reform, the governor-elect, Jaime Bonilla, will begin his discharge on November 1 of this year and end on October 31, 2024.
After the news broke the news, the national president of the PAN, Marko Cortés, expressed his rejection of approval, calling the reform “illegal” and announced that they will file an action of unconstitutionality before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and exaggerate to the panist lawmakers who “got corrupted with Morena.”
Our total rejection of the illegal modification of the constitutional text of #BC which seeks to extend the period for which he was elected @Jaime_BonillaV, we will file Action of Unconstitutionality before the @SCJN and expel the legislators who were corrupted with Brunette.
— Marko Cortés (@MarkoCortes) July 9, 2019
At his morning conference on Tuesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was questioned about what happened in the Congress of Baja California but preferred not to talk about the subject arguing that it is a local issue that will have to be reviewed by the Court Electoral.
“I don’t think because I don’t want it to be misunderstood, there’s a legal procedure that has to do with the local Congress, there are local bodies and we have to wait for what’s resolved there,” he said.
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On whether there was a settlement between the PAN and Morena benches to benefit the governor-elect, the representative noted that if there is an “undue manipulation or thing” it will be the subject of the Electoral Tribunal and that the Executive will not intervene.
Bonilla won last June 2 by beating panista Oscar Vega Marín by a wide margin. With this the PAN lost its governorship in Baja California after 30 years of tenure. In 1989 this entity was the first in which Nacional Acción won victory in an election of local representative, when Ernesto Ruffo prevailed before the PRI.
With information from Zeta.
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