Mexico City: Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Scheinbaum said late on Thursday there was no decision on the constitutional reforms proposed by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Scheinbaum’s leftist Morena party and its allies are seeking to win the two-thirds majority needed in both houses of Congress this week to enact retaliatory measures in the Mexican market.
When asked about the changes, Scheinbaum said, “no decisions have been made. My opinion is that there should be negotiations, proposals should be evaluated.”
Critics warn that some of the reforms would eliminate key oversight agencies, eliminate judicial independence and further concentrate power in the executive branch.
Morena and his junior partners, the Green Party and the Labor Party, will retain 83 seats in the Senate out of a total of 128 seats, the interior minister said in early results on Wednesday.
Although he is just shy of the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution, Morena can cut deals with other parties to get the necessary votes.
In the 500-member lower house of Congress, the left-wing coalition government is likely to have a majority of 372 seats.
