Claudia Salazar/Reform Agency
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | 15:08
Mexico City.- The coordinator of Morena, Ignacio Mier, reversed the opinion that deputies from his bench and allies approved yesterday, to increase fines for those who insult the President of the Republic and that Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected during his morning press conference.
The opinion was approved in the Governance Commission, with the votes of 19 deputies from Morena, PVEM and PT, plus one from the MC deputy, María Elena Limón, while the Va por México coalition did so against it.
After President López Obrador said that he would veto such a reform if it were endorsed by both Chambers of Congress, Mier assured that it will no longer be presented to the plenary session.
“The update of fines for insults, approved in the Governance Commission, WILL NOT PASS to the plenary session while Jucopo presides and our coalition is a majority,” Mier posted when distancing himself from the reform endorsed by deputies from the majority bloc without any discussion in the Commission.
Ignacio Mier assured that the initiative, presented in the rostrum by the representative of Zacatecas Bennelly Jocabeth Hernández in March of last year, is not even part of Morena’s legislative agenda.
“Neither a political nor a strategic error, just a legislative process,” minimized the parliamentary coordinator, after President López Obrador’s rejection of it.
