MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s ruling party Morena and its allies have a majority in the lower house of Congress but not the Senate, the party’s president said on Sunday, less than the two-thirds needed to swing both houses. constitution.
Preliminary results of the June 2 vote elected Claudia Scheinbaum as Mexico’s first female president in a landslide, with Morena’s party and its allies closing but losing a two-thirds majority.
Morena’s coalition, which includes the Green Party and the Labor Party, will control 83 seats in the 128-seat Senate, President Mario Delgado said on social media.
Delgado said the ruling left-wing coalition would win 372 seats in the 500-member lower house, above the 332-seat supermajority threshold.
“With the supermajority in the House of Representatives and the majority in the Senate, we will deepen the reforms to build a country of prosperity and overall prosperity,” said Delgado.
Mexico’s electoral agency INE said it would count for 60% of the vote. Mexican opposition leader Cochitl Galvez, who lost the election to Scheinbaum by almost 30 percent, called for 80 percent of the ballot box.
Uncertainty about the composition of the next Congress, which will take office in September, has supported markets since the exit of left-wing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and President-elect Scheinbaum said they supported major constitutional reforms last week.
Potential reforms will see the abolition of independent energy regulators, a major overhaul of the judiciary, and Supreme Court judges, along with increased power in the executive branch.
Mexico ruling party wins lower house super-majority but falls short in Senate
