Overview

• Livestreamed video shows PRI leader Alejandro “Alito” Moreno confronting Senate president Gerardo Fernández Noroña during the national anthem, pushing and slapping his neck as a cameraman was knocked down.
• Fernández Noroña says he will convene an Aug. 29 emergency session to propose expelling Moreno and three other PRI senators involved in the melee.
• The Senate leader said he had filed a criminal complaint against Moreno and would seek to lift Moreno’s legislative immunity; no sanctions have been approved to date.
• Moreno denies initiating the violence and accuses Fernández Noroña of throwing the first shove, later repurposing the footage in a campaign post on X.
• The fight capped a heated dispute over alleged opposition support for U.S. military intervention against cartels, a claim PRI and PAN deny as Mexico’s government reiterates it will not allow U.S. troops on its soil.