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Mexican Senate Brawl Triggers Bid to Expel PRI’s Alejandro Moreno

Gerardo Fernández Noroña scheduled an emergency session to propose expulsions of PRI senators involved in the fight.

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Senator Alejandro Moreno (L) of the minority PRI party scuffles with Senator Gerardo Fernandez Norona as they came to blows following a heated debate over alleged calls from the opposition for the United States to intervene militarily against drug cartels
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Overview

  • Livestreamed video shows Alejandro “Alito” Moreno approach Senate president Gerardo Fernández Noroña during the national anthem, grab his arm and push and slap him as a photographer was knocked down.
  • Fernández Noroña said he will file a bodily-harm complaint and seek the revocation of Moreno’s legislative immunity.
  • The Senate president set an emergency session for Friday to propose expelling Moreno and three other PRI lawmakers linked to the scuffle.
  • Moreno denies initiating the altercation, asserting that Fernández Noroña struck first, highlighting conflicting accounts of the incident.
  • The clash followed a heated debate over alleged calls for U.S. military involvement against cartels, with Mexico reiterating it will not accept U.S. forces on its territory; Moreno separately faces possible impeachment over alleged past corruption.