(29 Aug 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 29 August 2024
1. Lower house representatives at inaugural session
2. Lower house leader Ifigenia Martínez swearing in new representatives, UPSOUND (Spanish): "Do you swear to uphold the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and to ensure that it is respected?"
3. Representatives taking oath of office, UPSOUND (Spanish): "Yes, I do."
4. Various of representatives extending their arms
5. Various of representatives applauding
6. Various of representatives posing for photos
7. Screen displaying representatives’ names
8. Lower house floor during session
9. Representatives voting on new lower house leaders
10. Various of representatives voting on tablets
11. Close of screen showing votes
12. Martínez standing up, making V-sign
13. Representatives of ruling Morena party applauding
14. Representatives chanting (Spanish), "Morena"
15. Opposition representatives chanting (Spanish), "Resistance"
16. Timer counting down to zero
17. Representatives leaving after ring of bell marks end of session
SENATE OF MEXICO
Mexico City, Mexico – 29 August 2024
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18. Senate leader Manlio Fabio Beltrones swearing in new Senate, UPSOUND (Spanish): "Do you swear to uphold the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and to ensure that it is respected?"
19. Various of senators taking oath of office, UPSOUND (Spanish): "Yes, I do."
20. Senators applauding
STORYLINE:
Mexico swore in a new Congress Thursday as the ruling party edged closer to a steamroller two-thirds majority in both houses.
The ruling Morena party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday it had won over two senators that defected from the opposition.
The announcement was made by President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, of López Obrador’s party, who will take office on October 1.
After being awarded a two-thirds majority in the lower house following the June 2 elections, the Morena party and its allies are now one vote away from a similar majority in the Senate.
Such majorities would allow Morena to push through controversial changes to the Constitution.
Those changes include a proposal to force all judges to stand for election, a move that critics say would concentrate power further in the presidency, erase the independence of the judiciary and open it to influence by those who provide cash to fund those election campaigns.
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico publicly voiced similar concerns last week, prompting López Obrador to say he would put relations with the U.S. Embassy "on pause."
Electoral court judges signed off on the ruling party’s two-thirds majority in the lower house after a final appeal this week, and little now stands in the way of a slate of about 20 Constitutional changes the Morena party plans to push through.
Morena will probably be able to lure away one more senator from one of the smaller parties. Constitutional changes also require approval by two-thirds of state legislatures, and Morena and its allies control about two dozen of Mexico’s 32 states.
AP Video by Martín Silva Rey
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