Mexico City.– President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum met with PAN Senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez, who last week cast the decisive vote for the approval of the judicial reform.
Amid speculation about the incorporation of Yunes Márquez to the Morena bench in the Senate, Sheinbaum received the Veracruz legislator in the transition house, in the Iztapalapa Mayor’s Office.
Yunes Márquez, who is considered a traitor by the PAN for having voted in favor of the constitutional reform, reported on social media that he met with Sheinbaum to wish her success in her administration. “I met with Dr. @Claudiashein to wish her much success in her administration as the first female president of Mexico,” he posted on X.
The Morena coordinator in the Senate and president of the Political Coordination Board, Adán Augusto López, participated in the meeting. He is credited with negotiating with the Yunes to vote in favor of the judicial reform.
“I greatly appreciate the participation of Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández @adan_augusto , president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate of the Republic,” added the former mayor of Boca del Río. On September 10, amid protests, the takeover of the Senate by judges and students, and using pressure on opponents, the majority bloc headed by Morena approved the judicial reform proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The addition of Yunes Márquez, who according to the PAN members was pressured to give up his vote in exchange for not persecuting him or his father Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, his substitute in the senate, and the absence of Daniel Barreda, MC senator for Campeche, were sufficient for approval.
On September 11, after the reform was approved, Sheinbaum rejected pressure or threats against Yunes Márquez to vote in favor of the reform, and said that he had made a good decision and that history will recognize him for it.
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