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A "Forgotten" Proposition
The News - go to original August 04, 2009
![](../images/spacer.gif) Much has been said and written about the new Congress selected by voters in a fair and square election which left a reenergized Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) back in power, and a lot of sour faces among those who will now have to sit back and watch the PRI deputies have a heyday.
![](../images/spacer.gif) But what about the 60th Congress which closed shop over the weekend and will now be vacating offices at the San Lázaro legislative building?
![](../images/spacer.gif) Most certainly they left many unfulfilled, or perhaps ignored, promises behind - such as the one proposed in 2006 by a coalition of 128 deputies and 43 senators which would allow the reelection of municipal mayors. The Constitution was to be amended.
![](../images/spacer.gif) There was much ado about nothing during this proposition that lit up the faces of thousands of municipal mayors who saw themselves reelected for three more years.
![](../images/spacer.gif) The proposed bill did not even make it to the negotiation table. It was not considered during the 2007 and 2008 State Reform negotiations among the parties.
![](../images/spacer.gif) There is a time-honored agreement among Mexican legislators not to permit reelection at any level of government. History is long and the 32-year dictatorship (1878-1910) of Porfirio Díaz, which led to The Mexican Revolution, left its mark on the minds of congressmen; no individual should serve more than his elected term demands.
![](../images/spacer.gif) This perhaps explains why congressmen "forgot" to discuss the reelection of municipal mayors. Or of any other elected official, for that matter. |
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