Less than a week after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented his electoral reform initiative, the opposition parties PAN, PRI and PRD advanced their counterproposal on the matter, which includes points such as the second round in the presidential election and the regulation of the president’s morning press conferences.
The national leaders of the three parties said that with these approaches they seek to face the presidential proposal, which they considered a “stitch”.
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The leader of the PAN, Marko Cortés, explained to journalists the six points of the counterproposal of Va por México. Cortés spoke accompanied by the leaders of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno, and the PRD, Jesús Zambrano.
The first point is to establish the second round in the presidential election, so that whoever is elected has the support of the majority of the electorate. The second is to eliminate overrepresentation in the Chamber of Deputies, which occurs when a party achieves a percentage of seats higher than its percentage of votes.
The third idea of Va por México is to make all parties have primary elections to define candidates – which would be organized by the National Electoral Institute (INE) – while the fourth is to set “serious sanctions” for those who use social programs for electoral purposes or threaten people with taking them away if they do not vote in a certain way.
The fifth point is to establish the total nullity of the elections in which organized crime intervenes, and the sixth, to regulate morning press conferences, a space that the president uses from Monday to Friday to talk about his administration and criticize those who question it.
In @AccionNacional we have a counterproposal for electoral reform to strengthen democracy, prohibit the electoral use of social programs and establish nullity in elections where organized crime participates. pic.twitter.com/6Trg6EnGxt
— Marko Cortés (@MarkoCortes) May 2, 2022
Va por México’s proposals would involve changes to the Constitution, so they would need a qualified majority of both chambers to pass.
Neither the PAN-PRI-PRD bloc nor the one headed by Morena have the two-thirds of the votes necessary for their respective initiatives to move forward, which would force them to negotiate and reach agreements.
The proposal of López Obrador and Morena includes points such as disappearing the INE to create a new National Institute of Elections and Consultations (INEC), reducing the number of federal deputies, senators and local deputies, as well as eliminating ordinary public financing for political parties.
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