Manuel Velascocoordinator of Green Party Ecologist from Mexico (PVEM) in it Senate of the Republic, stated on February 17 that his party will not define position about the electoral reform until receiving the definitive document.
According to statements made in the Senatehe legislator stated: “They are still there, I think we are in the last hours to make an effort and try to find a consensus on the subject.”
Velasco He stressed that he does not know the content end of the electoral reform and who shares the uncertainty of the press: “I don’t want to lieI don’t have a document that they have already presented Let it be the one they are going to present next week.”.
The statement demonstrates the strain in the ruling coalition, made up of Brunettehe PVEM and the P.T.what are you looking for consensus on key issues of the initiative. The negotiation revolves around the possible elimination of deputies multi-member and adjustment to prerogatives –public funds granted to the parties–, matters that generate postures divided among the allies.
Brunetteheaded in the Chamber of Deputies by Ricardo Monrealhas admitted that the initiative no will advance if your partners of the P.T. and the PVEM they do not express back explicit. The sum of votes of the coalition barely exceeds the constitutional minimum necessary in the Senateso the abstention or vote against a single allied legislator could block any change.
In previous meetings, the senator Velasco insisted that “we are not stuckwe are seeing how we can coincide”reiterating its interest in review the selection mechanism multi-member deputies and adjust the formulas financing.
Furthermore, he defended the need to maintain balances inside the political system Mexican and was open to reducing the costs of the electoral processes, although he clarified that there is no consensus total on these points.
For his part, the senator PVEM Luis Armando Melgar rejected any modification that affects the autonomy of the National Electoral Institute (INE), by qualifying it as “absolutely untouchable”.
The national debate finds echo in San Luis Potosiwhere the call “Wife Law” sparked controversy. This local reformapproved and later vetoed by the governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona, intended to reserve the candidacy to the governorship in 2027 exclusively for womenappealing to the gender parity.
Various actors pointed it out as a possible way to favor Ruth Gonzalez Silvasenator and wife of the president, which generated accusations of electoral nepotism.
In that context, Manuel Velasco expressed his back to Gonzalez as a profile of PVEM for the choice state. He declared: “She’s up two to one, with more than 20 points. If she wantsdefinitely could be the next governor”.
According to data from the PVEM, internal surveys place Ruth Gonzalez as the most option competitivealthough the senator He reiterated before the media that his priority immediate is the work in the Upper House and avoided confirming his aspiration
