Xóchitl Galvez joins the PRD; seek to avoid control of Morena in Standing Committee in the Senate
Opposition parties and Morena contest control of the Standing Committee in the Senate of the Republic, with the aim of being able to convene extraordinary periods.
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This, after Senator Xóchitl Galvez joined the PRD bench in the Senate of the Republic, with the aim of preventing Morena and her allies from having a qualified majority in that committee.
“In these times when the National Palace is attacking democracy and autonomous bodies, it is necessary to strengthen the opposition. There must be a balance between all political parties in the Union Congress to avoid impositions,” the legislator published.
However, the coordinator of Morena’s parliamentary group, Ricardo Monreal, foresees two senators to move to the Solidarity Encounter Party (PES), with the aim of having the allied party of the government have a seat in the Standing Committee.
“The (Morena) group wants it to be strictly proportional, I’m trying to talk to everyone, there was a political strategy to add a PAN senator to the PRD and then Morena passed two to the PES, they’re still on it,” she explained.
Although he said that the Senate Board of Directors is only aware of Gálvez’s request to join the PRD bench, Monreal argued that they will seek conciliation so that both the PRD and the PES have a voice in the Standing Committee.
“What I will propose is that it is a kind of saline solution: that between the PRD and the PES you can divide the seat, one session, one session, one session, another,” he explained.
#EnVivo Convert with the communicators covering the information source of the @senadomexicano, on this day that concludes the last regular session of this Legislature. https://t.co/qk33gFpukW
— Ricardo Monreal A. (@RicardoMonrealA) April 29, 2021
According to Monreal, Morena would retain 9 seats in the Standing Committee, and argued that seats must be delivered in accordance with the law, in proportion.
He also said that this dispute is “normal” because of election times and polarization in the country.
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