Overview

• At Morena’s lower-house plenary, Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez called the electoral reform a “historic necessity” to leave the “old order” behind.
• She told lawmakers that a Special Commission is working on the draft and urged them to push the initiative through Congress.
• Rodríguez framed the goal as building a “second floor” of democratic transformation with free, transparent elections and no waste of public funds.
• She emphasized austerity as a guiding principle for the movement and asked deputies to renounce luxury and extravagance.
• She praised President Claudia Sheinbaum’s probity and cited governance results, including assistance to 86,000 repatriated nationals, 165,000 home visits in high-conflict areas, and the voluntary destruction of 457 firearms and 634 grenades.