• POWERS: Mexico’s Congress will not hold a special session in May to discuss changes to Mexico’s budget law that would have allowed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to redirect money allocated by Congress towards his own priorities in the case of an economic emergency.
• EMERGENCY: Mexico’s Lower Chamber Majority Leader, Mario Delgado, said today on Twitter that an agreement has been reached with the Senate’s president, and the Mexican Congress will not convene for a special session to discuss the changes, as it was recommended by the Ministry of Health’s to upkeep social distancing practices.
• NUMBERS: In reality, Delgado did not have enough votes to approve a special session of Congress given that Mexico’s opposition parties successfully banded together against the idea, in the so-called Permanent Committee in charge of legislative work during recess periods.
• OPPOSITION: “Approving (the changes to budget law) would represent a clear setback in our legal order, it would not only be an act of responsibility towards present and future generations, but it would also mean a reversion to authoritarianism, disdaining the democratic rule of law”, opposition parties said.
