Morena has named Sen. Gerardo Fernández Noroña as the leader of the Senate.
Fernandez Noroña is known for his taunting, invective-filled speeches and his steadfast refusal to wear a face mask in meetings even when rules required him to do so during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
José Gerardo Rodolfo Fernández Noroña (born 19 March 1960) is a Mexican politician and sociologist from the Labor Party (formerly from the PRD Party of the Democratic Revolution).
He is known mostly for his bad image and for his protest acts especially starting with the 2006 presidential election.
He was a federal deputy on two occasions (2009–2012 and 2018–2023) and in 2018 he was nominated by the PT to run as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic within the “Together We Make History” coalition for the 2024 federal elections
Since the party with most seats gets to name the leader of the lower house as well, Congress will be led by Rep. Adán Augusto López, an old-style political enforcer whose style is reminiscent of the regional political bosses of the 1940s and 50s.
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.
U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar said last week the proposed judicial changes pose a “risk” to Mexico’s democracy and “threaten the historic commercial relationship” between Mexico and the U.S.
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