CDMX.- On the eve of the Senate session to discuss the reform of the Judicial Branch, opposition legislators accused Morena and the federal government of seeking to buy the vote they need to approve the legal adjustment. They even claimed that some legislators have received threats.
“They are creating different investigation files and threatening them and their families and seeking to bribe them with multiple offers from their states and from the Federation. This is unacceptable,” said Marko Cortés, national leader of the PAN, at a press conference.
“I have heard, within my own group and in other parliamentary groups, that they have had very strong pressure to vote in favor of the reform and this, well, is something delicate,” declared the coordinator of the 22 PAN senators, Guadalupe Murguía, in an interview. With 22 PAN seats, 15 PRI, 5 MC and one non-party, the Opposition can prevent the approval of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s reform. However, with 85 senators, Morena and its allies from the PVEM and the PT need only one vote to have the qualified majority to make the change happen.
So far, the entire Opposition has stated that it will vote against the initiative.
“This obsession that the Government has and, beyond that, I would say, this revenge that the Government has against the Judiciary, has evidently made them operate all the necessary mechanisms to obtain the votes,” accused the PAN senator from Baja California, Gustavo Sánchez. “Yes, I have heard of colleagues who have been approached to pressure them, because they know that they do not have enough votes that are required,” he added. “It is pressure out of desperation, because they know that the reform will not pass even though they were saying that they had more than enough, that is false, and that is why they are making these moves,” said, for his part, Senator Enrique Vargas. The PAN legislators demanded that the federal Government and Morena stop this pressure, which the PRI has also denounced. Alejandro Moreno, national leader of the PRI, reaffirmed that his party will vote against the judicial reform and reiterated that legislators from his party have also been harassed and threatened to obtain the vote that is missing for the reform. “The attempt at judicial reform is nothing more than an effort to weaken one of the fundamental pillars of the State, subordinating it to the interests of a party,” he said. Until last night, workers from the Judicial Branch were holding a sit-in outside the Senate against the reform.
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