The Executive branch opted to send Plan B to the Senate first, after Plan A for electoral reform also failed in the Chamber of Deputies. “We see it differently, the opposition failed, thinking the initiative would not move forward.” He was asked if he informed President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo that he had failed to reach an agreement with the Labor Party (PT). “We have permanent communication with the head of the Executive and her team. Although the Senate is set to approve Plan B for electoral reform, Ignacio Mier Velazco, Morena's coordinator and president of the Political Coordination Board, rejected the notion that it is a failure. “We did all the work behind the scenes to get results in the plenary session. We maintain the substantive function of the National Electoral Institute (INE), but we adjust it according to article 127, the principle of republican austerity. We are acting while protecting the governing coalition, which has generated a structural change to the political system through the Constitution.” “One of our allies decides not to accompany a part of the initiative, but keeps alive the principles that united us as a coalition, which is republican austerity,” he commented in an interview with the media. And it is that Plan B would also force state congresses to adjust their budgets, for municipalities to have no more than 15 councilors, and for electoral officials to adjust their salaries so they no longer earn more than the President. The Morena leader anticipated that the reservation that the PT caucus will present is to remove article 35 from the bill, which proposed that the recall of the mandate be held in the third or fourth year of government; that is, to move it up during the midterm elections. “All of article 35 is removed so that it remains in its current terms as it is in the Constitution.” He affirmed that this will allow maintaining the “stability and governability” of the country. He rejected that it is a failure for Morena: “No, Morena is a coalition, how can it be a defeat if we, together with the Labor Party and the Green Party, have managed to reform 103 articles of the Constitution?” A ‘decaffeinated’ Plan B for electoral reform? Likewise, the senator from Puebla rejected that Plan B will be ‘decaffeinated’. “How can it be decaffeinated, one has to ask the people. How can that be if the Senate is adjusting its budget by 15 percent”. He saw it even less as a personal defeat, since it was the first major reform he had to carry through as the new parliamentary coordinator of Morena. “Yes, she is already aware”.
