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Brawl Erupts in Mexico City Congress as Majority Passes InfoCDMX Dissolution at Alternate Site

After the opposition seized the rostrum and left the chamber, Morena and its allies logged 45 votes to move the capital’s transparency duties under the city comptroller.

Overview

  • Video from the official feed and social media shows legislators trading punches and hair-pulling during the last ordinary session of the legislature.
  • Named in the scuffle were PAN’s Daniela Álvarez and Morena’s Yuriri Ayala and Claudia Pérez, with the clash unfolding around the presiding desk.
  • Presiding officer Jesús Sesma called a recess and the main-chamber session was suspended before the majority shifted proceedings to an alternate venue near the Zócalo.
  • The approved constitutional reform extinguishes the autonomous InfoCDMX and creates a new transparency body dependent on the city’s Contraloría Jurídica, a point of dispute over whether it should be collegial or led by one person.
  • Opposition PAN, PRI and Movimiento Ciudadano walked out over what they called a rollback of transparency, while Morena condemned what it described as a violent takeover of the rostrum and alleged damage to the Congress flag.