Electoral ‘Plan B’ reaches the Senate amid silence and haste
Without consensus, but with a majority. This is how Claudia Sheinbaum’s electoral reform initiative arrives at the Senate committees this Monday. Morena has the numbers to get ahead in commissions, but things are getting interesting.
The president advisor of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, asked to be heard before the vote. At the stroke of noon he will present his objections. A necessary formality, but one that no one expects to change the script.
“In the Chamber of Senators it is planned to discuss the constitutional reform in political matters that is known as Plan B,” they explained from the Senate.
The real mess is not in the commissions, but in the plenary session. The Labor Party still does not swallow the pill that the revocation consultation can be held together with the 2027 federal elections. That is the tough nut to crack.
Laura Itzel Castillo, president of the Senate, already has the schedule: first reading tomorrow, Tuesday, discussion and final vote on Wednesday. Rushes that always arouse suspicion in this profession.
The initiative promises to reduce ‘privileges’ in congresses and electoral bodies, and ‘strengthen’ the right to request the revocation of the mandate. A package that smells like a change of rules in the middle of the game. We’ll see what the votes say when the moment of truth arrives.
