“Do not put your hands”: PAN warned AMLO he was running for the Senate board

The parliamentary group of the National Action Party (PAN) will seek the Presidency of the Board of Directors of the Senate of the Republic and asked the president of the republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stay out of the legislative process.

“As the first opposition force, the National Action Party will ask to chair the board of the Senate. Morena must work with alternation and plurality, not under the instructions of the President», Underlined the blue and white bench.

The opposition group recalled that in previous legislatures, there had been alternation of the presidency of the upper chamberHowever, he stressed that this has not happened under the current administration.

Therefore, the PAN called for the construction of a “healthy parliamentarism”, in which there is respect for minorities. Opponents reiterated that it is necessary to maintain the healthy division of powers, strengthen the parliamentary system, dialogue, as well as the construction of agreements based on respect and autonomy.

Blue and white have repeatedly expressed witnessed and suffered the subjugation of the majority to the political forces of the opposition.

“Not only that, but also the interference of the Executive in the Legislative”, he denounced.

assured that not a personal problem against competing profilesOn the contrary, the legislature must be autonomous, so maintaining the presidency of the Senate in one party is neither healthy nor ethical.

“The challenges we face as a country require coordinated work, beyond ideological differences and this is perfectly achievable if we manage to guarantee spaces of urbanity and civility ”, he declared.

Finally, he launched a respectful appeal to allow the alternation he seeks before the candidacy of the newcomer, Olga Sanchez Cordero.

Minutes later, the PAN parliamentary group said on its Twitter account that the party must chair the Senate of the Republic for the health and welfare of Mexicans, jobs and the country’s economy.

“The Legislature is an autonomous power, maintaining the presidency in a single party is neither healthy nor ethical. When there is democracy, there is alternation. For the sake of health, employment and the economy of Mexicans, the GPPAN must preside over the Senate of the Republic ”, he published in his official account.

Note that this Friday August 27 Morena senators voted unanimously in favor of Olga Sánchez Cordero, who until August 26 was the head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), be the next chairman of the board of the upper house.

During its plenary meeting, the coordinator of the judiciary, Ricardo Monreal, asked Morenoite lawmakers to vote by show of hands if the proposal that the former minister of the Supreme Court be his strong card to chair the Senate was ratified.

“I want to introduce you to our friend Olga Sánchez Cordero, who joined us yesterday. I propose to senators that our next chairman of the board of directors be Senator Olga Sánchez Cordero. If you agree, let’s express it by a show of hands, ”the politician zacatecan said in plenary.

Once the proposal is unanimously approved, Monreal praised party cohesion and thanked Bertha Caraveo, Ana Lilia Rivera, Imelda Castro and Marybel Villegas, for declining in favor of Sánchez Cordero, who also thanked the four Morenoist senators.

“I am extremely honored, excited by this great welcome in these parliamentary factionsSaid the former secretary of state.

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