The show arrived at the venue: chapopote as a political weapon
The Chamber of Deputies became a stage for absurd theater last night. While President Claudia Sheinbaum’s electoral reform “Plan B” was being discussed, politics was reduced to a fight with chapopote as the protagonist.
Deputy Sergio Gil, from Movimiento Ciudadano, took his protest to the literal extreme. He placed a bucket with that sticky material—collected on beaches in Veracruz—near the Morena block. The response was immediate and visceral.
Deputy Paola Tenorio Adame (Morena) took the bucket and threw the contents towards Gil. In seconds, the room was filled with shouts and insults that overshadowed any substantial debate.
Fourteen hours for this: where was the discussion?
The session lasted over 14 hours with 137 reservations and 131 speakers. But what will remain in memory is this embarrassing episode that instantly went viral. The Board of Directors tried, in vain, to ask for order and respect.
Meanwhile, Gil published the video of the incident with critical messages. Tenorio Adame maintained public silence. And in the background, among all this circus, the electoral reform was approved without changes to the Senate minutes.
This is not just an act of parliamentary rudeness. It is the perfect symptom of a politics that has forgotten its purpose: to debate ideas to improve lives. My father taught me that politics affects people’s daily lives. Last night, in that facility, they only affected one carpet.
Who wins with this show? Nobody. We all lose when theater replaces debate. When a symbol of environmental pollution is used as a throwing weapon instead of discussing how to really clean our system.
