Morena added two more legislators to its ranks in the Mexico City Congress, Luis Chávez left the National Action Party (PAN) militancy, while the now ex-PRI member Silvia Sánchez Barrios also joined the ruling party parliamentary group.
The anteroom of the parliamentary precinct of Donceles and Allende was the stage chosen by Xóchitl Bravo, parliamentary coordinator of the National Regeneration Movement, to present her legislators and the benches of her allies from the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico and the Labor Party.
The legislator assured that the three parliamentary groups of the IV Transformation add up to 46 deputies, together with their two new allies and eventually the PRD member Nora Arias.
However, the president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in Mexico City clarified that this political institution has its parliamentary faction, since she will be accompanied by Pablo Trejo, a Morena legislator whose party origin is that of the Sol Azteca party.
Silvia Sánchez Barrios formed a parliamentary association called Women for Feminist and Inclusive Commerce, in which she was accompanied by Morena legislator Leticia Haro; the new Morena supporter justified her decision because, given the political changes in Mexico City, as well as in the country, it is important to seek and create new spaces with the objective of developing legislative work as best as possible for the benefit of those who voted for her.
He clarified that his mother, Alejandra Barrios, will continue to be a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and offered that, “from this new political space, my ideals on the defense of the most vulnerable groups will continue as they have been from the first day I became a popular representative. In addition, I will put on the table such complex but necessary issues as what is happening with water, security and justice, the environment, education, economic development in the capital, without leaving aside merchants in public spaces.”
At the time, Luis Chávez, surrounded by his new coreligionists, only managed to express that it is better to move forward united than divided, that we must always look for similarities rather than differences.
“I just want to tell people that we are pursuing a federal agenda and an agenda for Mexico City and, above all, we will do our part to build a better legislative agenda that will give direction to Mexico City,” said the new Morena legislator.
With that force, coordinator Xóchitl Bravo guaranteed that they will not function as a steamroller, but warned: we will not allow political blackmail, because we are here to inform the people that this congress will be productive, benefiting the citizens, with legislative initiatives, with modifications, with a public budget that will be executed by the next administrations.
Nora Arias, who arrived as the only PRD legislator, managed to add Pablo Trejo to form a faction, but the PAN member Ricardo Rubio questioned this decision during the session, because the now legislator of the PRD bench belongs to Morena, although it is alleged that his origin is from the Sol Azteca party.
In her personal case, Arias Contreras stated that she was a deputy by vote of the PRD, not by the alliance, and that legislators have the obligation to coordinate, “we are in alliance with all parties, in parliament the deputies have to get everything through consensus, that would be ideal, that any political group or bench could get everything through consensus,” she concluded.