Overview

• Livestreamed video shows Alejandro “Alito” Moreno approaching Senate president Gerardo Fernández Noroña during the national anthem, grabbing his arm and pushing him as a melee broke out.
• A cameraman identified as Emiliano González González, an aide to Fernández Noroña, was knocked down in the scuffle and was later fitted with a neck brace, according to on-scene reports.
• Fernández Noroña says he will file a bodily-harm complaint and seek to revoke Moreno’s legislative immunity after alleging Moreno assaulted him and threatened to kill him.
• The Senate president set a Friday emergency session to propose expelling Moreno and three other PRI lawmakers involved in the confrontation.
• The clash followed a heated debate over foreign armed forces in Mexico, with PRI and PAN denying calls for U.S. intervention as the Mexican government reiterated it would not accept U.S. troops on its territory.