With 127 votesthe plenary session of the Senate ratified to Gerardo Fernandez Norona as president of the Board of Directors in the Upper HouseWith this, the senator will be in charge of directing the plenary debates during the first year of the LXVI Legislature.
Along with Fernández Noroña, the senators Imelda Castro, Karla Guadalupe Toledoas well as Mauritius Vila will act as Vice-Presidents of the Board. Legislators also join as secretaries Veronica Path, Yazmin Bugarin Rodriguez, Luis Donald Colosio Riojas, Lizeth Sanchez Garcia.
As president of the Board of Directors for the first year of the Legislature, Gerardo Fernandez Noronha He said: “I am convinced that a commoner like me could never have aspired to head the presidency of the Senate; so let it be heard loud and clear: it is the time of the people and we, the commoners, have decided to take the destiny of the country into our own hands.”
“I would like to thank all the parliamentary factions (…) for having supported with their vote that this Board of Directors has such an enormous honor and such a great responsibility. We will do it with attachment to the importance of the Senate hasalways watching over the general interest and promoting the unit and the debate of various ideas“, he added, after taking the central chair at the Table.
“To all the parties represented here, you have in me a companion, that we are equals, that It is my responsibility to lead the debates of this Senate chamber. and? I will do it with respect and with institutionality (…) I celebrate that all the forces policies that we form this Senate We are represented and with this unity we serve the country beyond our differences of opinion.”
In his first speech as president of the Upper House, he took the opportunity to ask for a minute of silence for the death of Rosalinda Lopez Hernandezan elected senator who passed away in the early hours of June 5; and sister of Adam Augusto Lopezparliamentary coordinator of Brunette in the Senate.
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Already as president of the Senate, Fernandez Norona He summoned his fellow House members to the session of General Congress Next Sunday, September 1st at the Legislative Palace of San Lázaro; already the first session of the Upper House, the Tuesday, September 3.
This Thursday, the 128 new senatorsThey surrendered protest as members of the LXVI LegislatureThe Constitutive Session was chaired by Manlio Fabio Beltrones.