They secure a qualified majority – Morena and her allies add 3 opposition deputies and take control of the CdMx Congress

Morena announced that Nora Arias Contreras, Silvia Sánchez Barrios and Luis Chávez García, who belonged to the opposition parties, will join his bench, which now reaches a qualified majority in the Mexico City Congress.

Mexico City, September 1 (However).—El Parliamentary Group oh Morena in Mexico City reported this Sunday that it arrives qualified majority in it Congress local, which will allow you to approve all initiatives oh amend sent by the capital government, which will lead Clara Brugada Molina.

The Morenoist bench welcomed the deputies Nora Arias Contreras (PRD) and Silvia Sánchez Barrios (PRI), as well as Luis Chávez García (PAN), who belonged to the opposition and will now join the work of the official coalition.

In a press conference, Representative Xóchitl Bravo Espinosa claimed that the legislative power of 46 deputies of the Fourth Transition will be able to approve the proposals of the next Head of Government of the capital, Clara Brugada Molina, now that the qualified majority has been exceeded. .

Representing the Democratic Revolution (PRD), as well as four from the Progressive Parliamentary Association for Transformation and two from the Women’s Parliamentary Association for Feminist and Inclusive Trade.

“We are 46 deputies who are going to work for the good of Mexico City. Being the majority is not easy, that’s why I want to tell the other parliamentary groups that we will always give the privilege to dialogue, agreement, consensus. But also tell them, very clearly, that we are not going to allow political blackmail, because we are here to make people aware that this Congress is going to be productive,” he said.

For his part, Representative Jesús Sesma Suárez, who heads the PVEM bench, reiterated his party’s commitment to reinforcing the second floor of the transition; while Deputy Ernesto Villarreal Cantú, leader of the PT deputies, highlighted that the Let’s Keep Making History coalition has become a reality in the Mexico City Congress, as “the will of the capital’s residents expressed in the polls has been confirmed.”

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Yesterday, the Superior Electoral Tribunal Chamber of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) confirmed, by a majority vote, that Morena and her allies were one seat away from obtaining a qualified majority in the Congress of Mexico City, by rejecting various challenges from political parties, candidates and opposition candidates.

So the Electoral Court confirmed the decision of the regional Chamber to assign seven more multi-member deputies to Morena in the capital legislature, while “confirming the assignment of the deputies in accordance with the principle of equality between the sexes,” TEPJF reported in a statement.

In this way, the coalition of Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) maintained its 43 deputies and was one seat away from obtaining the qualified majority that would allow them to amend the local Constitution. despite the opposition’s claim of “over-representation” which was not approved by the electoral authorities; However, now with the announcement of the two deputies and the deputy they got a qualified majority.