Overview
- At the first hearing dedicated to Mexicans abroad, the government acknowledged longstanding debts to migrants and stressed that no prewritten reform exists.
- Lázaro Cárdenas Batel pledged that the proposal advanced to lawmakers will not be crafted by elites and will reflect input from the public process.
- Participants called for guaranteed representation elected by the diaspora, including at least 10 deputy seats and 4 to 5 Senate seats, plus independent candidacies with a five‑year residency requirement.
- Senator Karina Isabel Ruiz urged replacing party list proportional seats with a national citizen representation model and reducing the size of both chambers with reserved migrant seats.
- Proposals to ease overseas voting included allowing consular IDs or passports with INE registration, permanent INE modules at consulates, lasting foreign voter rolls, expanded local voting, and multiple voting methods.