Fight breaks out between lawmakers in CDMX Congress

Hair pulling. An elbow to the stomach. A slap to the head. A scrum of contorted bodies.

It wasn’t a schoolyard scrap, but alternatively a combat involving lawmakers successful the Mexico City Congress.

The chaotic melee played retired connected Monday during a statement implicit the disbandment of the Mexico City Transparency Institute (InfoCDMX) and the assemblage slated to regenerate it.

Unhappy with a Morena enactment connection related to the assemblage that volition regenerate InfoCDMX, a radical of National Action Party (PAN) lawmakers invaded the dais of the Mexico City Congress.

A carnal and verbal clash betwixt PAN and Morena lawmakers ensued.

PAN Deputy Daniela Álvarez and Morena Deputy Yuriri Ayala were astatine the halfway of the confrontation, grabbing each other’s arms and trading a fewer comparatively insignificant blows earlier they were progressive successful a messy infinitesimal of hair-pulling involving astatine slightest 4 pistillate lawmakers.

Sí, es el Congreso de CDMX en el siglo XXI.

Así la pelea durante la discusion del dictamen que desaparece el Instituto de Transparencia de la capital. pic.twitter.com/ESz8hSPWh0

— Joaquín López-Dóriga (@lopezdoriga) December 15, 2025

Green Party Deputy and Congress President Jesús Sesma, the lone antheral connected the dais, attempted to disentangle his pistillate colleagues, but wasn’t instantly successful.

The unbecoming occurrence was caught connected camera and, unsurprisingly, went viral connected societal media.

PAN Deputy Claudia Pérez sustained an wounded during the fracas and was subsequently filmed having a cervical collar placed astir her neck. She and different lawmakers progressive successful the clash could look legislature sanctions oregon perchance adjacent transgression charges.

The carnal altercation came a fewer months aft a akin occurrence successful the national Senate. Men were the aggressors connected that occasion.

InfoCDMX abolished

After the chaotic legislature confrontation, deputies with the Morena enactment and its allies — which predominate the Mexico City legislature — voted successful favour of the disbandment of InfoCDMX, ensuring that the connection was approved.

The replacement body, which volition beryllium portion of the Mexico City Comptroller’s Office, volition not beryllium a collegial instauration with representatives from antithetic governmental parties, arsenic had been agreed to by members of legislature committees.

A Morena party-backed determination to scrap the connection to make a assemblage of that quality precipitated Monday’s brawl.

“We’re not going to let governmental agreements to beryllium breached erstwhile we had agreed that the [new] transparency institute was going to beryllium tripartite,” said Álvarez, the PAN deputy, earlier the melee began.

Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and the Protection of Personal Data, which was known arsenic INAI, has already been disbanded aft the national Congress voted precocious past twelvemonth to destruct it and six different watchdog agencies. Opposition parties opposed the move, but their lawmakers weren’t progressive successful immoderate carnal confrontations with their Morena enactment counterparts.

With reports from Reforma, Infobae, La Jornada, Animal Político and El Universal