After Fernández Noroña declared the constitutionality of the constitutional supremacy reform, several PRI senators, including Alejandro Moreno, requested to speak. Moreno, a senator and national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), went up to confront the president of the Senate Board of Directors, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, demanding to be given the floor in a discussion session.
The controversy intensified when Moreno replied to Fernández Noroña: “Don’t shout at me, don’t shout at me.” Amid the discussion, Senator Lucía Trasviña from Morena intervened between both senators and then got involved in a scuffle with PRI legislator Karla Toledo.
Finally, once he was given the opportunity to speak, Moreno explained that his intention in taking the podium was to point out the lack of respect towards his caucus by other senators. He labeled Morena senators as "cynical and corrupt" and denounced that the democratic regime was being threatened by them.
However, Noroña, who is also a senator from the PT, a party allied with Morena, did not grant the requests of the PRI members, which caused their annoyance and further strained the atmosphere. Amid the confrontation, both Moreno and Noroña exchanged shouts and accusations, reaching a critical point of tension where the president of the Board of Directors demanded respect and called the PRI members "cynical corrupts who want to create a dictatorship."
