The ‘unity’ of the 4T that is cracking in Congress
Claudia Sheinbaum sends her electoral reform to Congress today. Morena claims to support her, but her historical allies do not swallow the plate whole. The PT and the Green clearly put a stop to central points of the project.
The proposal maintains 200 multi-member deputies, but distributes them differently: 97 for the ‘best losers’ of each party, 95 by direct vote and 8 for Mexicans abroad. He also wants to reduce the upper house: from 128 to 96 senators.
But the point that squeaks the most is the promise to cut 25% in the cost of elections. The allies say that, in practice, this is a leap into the void.
“The scheme would be unviable in operational and financial terms,” warn the PVEM.
Its electoral coordinator, Arturo Escobar, was more direct: the proposal could benefit the party with more money and generate pure simulation. Bigger campaigns with less money. He called it “impractical and inconvenient.”
Meanwhile, the PT is not taking half measures. Alberto Anaya and his team say they will not support any “democratic regression”. Their statement is a wall: they will defend plurality and previous advances.
So Sheinbaum sends his flagship initiative… but the so-called Fourth Transformation comes to the debate with visible cracks. Consensus is conspicuous by its absence. We’ll see how long the façade of unity lasts when the votes begin.




