Sheinbaum shares her next steps after electoral reform setback: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

Today’s mañanera in 60 seconds

• 🗳️ Sheinbaum’s electoral betterment connection was rejected successful the Chamber of Deputies aft Morena allies PT and PVEM withdrew support. She’s present pushing a “Plan B” focused connected cutting privileges successful section congresses and municipalities, and expanding national referendums.
• 🚕 The president sided with taxi drivers protesting astatine the Mexico City airport, calling their grievance against Uber a “valid argument” — taxistas wage airdrome fees, ride-hailing drivers don’t. A connection would determination app pickups distant from terminals, conscionable 3 months earlier the World Cup brings millions of tourists to Mexican airports.
• 🔍 Sheinbaum said she doesn’t cognize the whereabouts of El Mencho’s romanticist partner, who was with the CJNG person earlier the Feb. 22 cognition that killed him. She promised an update later.

Why today’s mañanera matters  

At her Thursday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum acknowledged that her electoral betterment connection didn’t walk the little location of Congress and consequently outlined a “plan B” initiative.

The rejection of the connection — which was efficaciously dormant connected accomplishment successful the Chamber of Deputies — is simply a important stroke for the president, though she asserts that she fulfilled her committedness to the radical of Mexico by simply submitting it to Congress.

Sheinbaum is presenting her “plan B” arsenic a beardown alternate to her archetypal electoral betterment proposal. However, the caller bill, if approved, volition not execute the aforesaid far-reaching electoral changes she had hoped to make.

Today’s mañanera was important arsenic Sheinbaum offered the archetypal details connected her “plan B,” and addressed different highly-topical issues, including the taxi drivers’ protestation that took spot astatine the Mexico City International Airport connected Wednesday.

Sheinbaum prepares ‘Plan B’ electoral reform 

Sheinbaum acknowledged that her electoral betterment connection was rejected by the little location of Congress connected Wednesday.

“We already knew they weren’t going to o.k. it,” she said.

Indeed, galore lawmakers with the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party (PVEM) — some of which are allies of the ruling Morena enactment — had expressed their absorption to the law betterment bill, whose objectives included reducing the size of the Senate, changing the mode plurinominal (proportional representation) deputies are elected and lowering predetermination costs, including by cutting backing for governmental parties. Opposition parties besides opposed the betterment proposal.

Without the afloat enactment of the PT and the PVEM, the measure was incapable to walk the Chamber of Deputies.

Sheinbaum said connected Thursday greeting that her betterment connection besides aimed to “reduce privileges successful governmental parties” and the National Electoral Institute, and “strengthen the information of the people” successful ideology successful Mexico.

Given that the betterment connection was rejected, Sheinbaum volition present taxable a “plan B” measure to Congress, arsenic she had indicated she would do.

The president said that her “plan B” has 3 main objectives:

• “Reduce the privileges that persist successful section Congresses” — i.e. the legislatures successful Mexico’s 32 national entities.
• “Reduce the privileges that persist successful municipalities,” of which Mexico has astir 2,500, each with their ain municipal government.
• “Strengthen nationalist consultation” — i.e. springiness citizens a greater accidental connected important issues, including via referendums, respective of which were held during Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency.

Sheinbaum presented a pared-back mentation of her electoral betterment connection connected Thursday morning. (Gabriel Monroy / Presidencia)

Sheinbaum: Protesting taxi drivers person ‘valid argument’ 

A time aft taxi drivers protested astatine Mexico City International Airport (AICM) against the cognition of drivers for ride-hailing apps astatine the airport, Sheinbaum noted that taxistas wage fees for the close to enactment there.

In contrast, the president highlighted, ride-hailing apps specified arsenic Uber bash not.

She noted that taxistas are opposed to drivers from ride-hailing apps having the aforesaid close to run astatine the airdrome without having to wage immoderate fees.

“It’s a valid argument,” said Sheinbaum, who went connected to outline an AICM connection to found “a space” further distant from the terminals wherever drivers for ride-hailing apps tin “safely arrive” to prime up passengers.

She noted that would let taxi drivers — “those who wage fees astatine the airport” — to prime up passengers straight extracurricular the AICM’s 2 terminals.

Several taxi companies run astatine AICM, wherever passengers are required to wage for their trips wrong the terminal earlier getting into vehicles. Prices are fixed depending connected the portion of Mexico City passengers are traveling to.

Taxi drivers blocked entree to the terminals of Mexico City International Airport (AICM) for 3 hours connected Wednesday, demanding that rideshare apps beryllium blocked from the airport. (Rogelio Morales / Cuartoscuro.com)

Still, Sheinbaum said that taxis that run astatine airports crossed Mexico request to “moderate” their prices “to payment passengers.”

The protestation astatine AICM connected Wednesday came precisely 3 months earlier the commencement of the FIFA men’s World Cup, which Mexico volition co-host with the United States and Canada. Millions of tourists are expected to get astatine Mexican airports during the five-week tournament.

Where is El Mencho’s lover?

Sheinbaum said she didn’t cognize what happened to the person of Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, who spent clip with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel person anterior to the Feb. 22 subject cognition that resulted successful his death.

The time aft the operation, Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said that authorities determined the determination of Oseguera successful Tapalpa, Jalisco, aft a antheral delivered 1 of his “romantic partners” to him. He didn’t place the woman.

Asked whether she had been detained, Sheinbaum said that her authorities would study connected the substance astatine a aboriginal date.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])