Senator-elect for National Action, Ricardo Anaya Cortés advancement that at the start of the next legislative period, It will be seen what the 43 opposition senators are made of to deal with initiatives of reform of the judiciary.
“Probably The only counterweight could be the Senate of the Republicalthough we will see what the 43 senators who are not part of the ruling party are made of. And that will be seen from the first vote,” said.
Prior to the start of the Constitutive Session of the Senate, Ana Cortés considered that “Mexico is experiencing a very complex moment in its history, Because for a democracy to work, not only in Mexico, here and in China, For a democracy to function, there generally have to be checks and balances.”
After former PRD members José Sabino Herrera and Araceli Saucedo joined the Morena bench yesterday, the green party added 66 senators to its ranks. Together with the Green Party and the Labor Party, The ruling bloc has 85 seats, meaning they only need one more vote to achieve a qualified majority, which is necessary to reform the Constitution.
Anaya Cortés said that “when a democracy is left without checks and balances, it becomes an authoritarian regime. And we are on the verge of that happening.”
He commented that in Mexico urges judicial reform, but he spoke out against the proposal sent by President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador on February 5th.
“Of course we need a deep reform of the justice system, but that does not mean that the medicine Morena is proposing will cure this disease. On the contrary, I think that the reform in the terms in which it is being proposed will aggravate the problem,” he said.
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“The heart of the problem is that Morena will have a monopoly on nominating candidates,” he criticized.
The senator stated that No PAN legislator will give in to Morena and cast the last vote necessary for a qualified majority. He said that although they will not end up saying “no,” they will remain firm against “anything that affects Mexican men and women.”