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A "Forgotten" Proposition
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August 04, 2009
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.
But what about the 60th Congress which closed shop over the weekend and will now be vacating offices at the San Lázaro legislative building?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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