Yesterday, the president reiterated that she would not yield on the original text of the reform, which is a problem for the allies of the PT and the Verde parties. In recent hours, there has been growing momentum within the presidential staff to begin the reform's legislative journey in the Senate, where there are fewer willing votes to be convinced. In fact, the Verde party's senatorial bloc already claims to have 10 of the 14 votes in question. The ruling coalition is now counting numbers for the final push to pass the electoral reform. This is the information that will now be at stake to approve a reform that the president considers essential to relaunch her administration, which has been battered for weeks by the usual infighting of the Morenistas. Under this route, in addition to aligning the Verde party's will, votes in the Senate from the PT—which would already have one agreed upon—and even from MC, which suffers from the effects of the geographical location of the cartel in question, are also mentioned. The Verde party's latest exchanges with the president have been complicated, and so it is observed that Manuel Velasco is beginning to take a prudent distance from the discussion: at this time, it is Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín who is calling to 'defend democracy.' The agreement mechanisms are concrete: either electoral options through candidacies, or a certain degree of coverage against the storm that the weekend blow from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel could generate in the coming months. The government is very aware that the cartel expanded through agreements made, specifically, in town halls.
