Claudia Salazar, Martha Martinez and Mayolo Lopez / Reform Agency
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 18:25
Mexico City.- The block of Morena and allies will be on the line to maintain a majority in the sessions of the Permanent Commission of Congress, after deputies from the Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) achieved a space, two years after the start of the 65th Legislature.
Of 37 members of deputies and senators, Morena, PVEM, PVEM, PT and PES add up to 20 members and the Opposition group has 17.
In the sessions of the Permanent Commission there is no weighted vote, that is, what each parliamentary group represents by its number of legislators, but what counts are the votes of those present in plenary.
Thus, half plus one of the 37 members of the Permanent Commission of Congress are 19.5 legislators, which when adjusting the fraction rises to 20, the limit number of the majority group.
If there are absences of Morena legislators and allies, they may lose the quorum and possible votes.
In addition, with the inclusion of a deputy from MC, the containment bloc of the Opposition in the Commission is further strengthened, since in order to achieve a qualified majority, Morena would lack five votes, which are necessary to make appointments and call extraordinary periods of sessions.
Since the beginning of the current Legislature, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) denied MC a representation in the Permanent Commission, because it had 25 members who did not give it the percentage to place a legislator in the Permanent.
That benefited Morena, because the space that MC could have was won by PVEM, which reached two deputies.
The MC bench appealed to the Electoral Tribunal and agreed with this bench in several resolutions in which it ordered a plural integration in the Permanent Commission, with which all political forces would have to be represented.
However, the Jucopo of the Chamber of Deputies refused to comply with the sentence, even in the formation of the Permanent that functioned in Congress between December 2022 and January 2023, and left MC out.
In recent months, MC invited deputies from other benches and added two more, bringing them to 27 members and, with this, they secured space in the Permanent Commission.
The agreement on Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies to integrate the body during the congressional recess already included MC and PRD, with one each, which subtracted a space from PVEM and another from the PAN.
By agreement of the Va por México coalition, the PAN gave up one place to the PRD of the five that corresponded to it.
With the agreement of the benches for the new recess, the PAN was left with four members, but the PRD was already recognized as a parliamentary group, with one deputy.
Of the other benches, Morena was left with 8 deputies, PRI three and PT one.
In the Senate, the representation of all groups was also recognized, with seven senators from Morena, two from the PAN, two from the PRI, two from MC, one from PVEM, one from PT, one from PRD, one from the Plural Group and one of the PES.
Now highlights the conformation in the integration of the PRI of proprietary and substitute senators.
Before, the former coordinator Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong gave space to his close group, such as Nuvia Mayorga and Eruviel Ávila.
That changed with the new coordinator, Manuel Añorve. In addition to this, there will also be Mario Zamora, as owners, and substitutes Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín and Beatriz Paredes.
