Passion invaded the plenary session of the Mexico Congress on Monday and a group of local deputies ended up hitting, pushing and pulling each other’s hair.
The reason for the fight was the discussion on the integration of the Transparency Institute … and access to public information of Mexico (INFO CDMX) at the Office of the Comptroller General of Mexico. The change is due to the intention of the ruling party in the capital, which is the same one that governs Mexico through Claudia Sheinbaum, to advance the body responsible for transparency.
The incident began after the opposition National Action Party (PAN) group spoke out to prevent the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) from rising to reason its vote on the decision.
Conflicts in the legislative field tend to be recurrent in Mexico: pushing, hitting, shouting and threatening They are part of the range of possibilities by which legislative plenaries can become uncontrolled.
The origin of the fight
The tumult began when MP Daniela Álvarez went up next to the vice-president’s seat, while he was trying to announce a suspension of the session. At the same time, the deputies of Morena, Martha Ávila, María del Rosario Morales and Yuriri Ayala, began to intimidate the PAN member with remarks that degenerated into hair pulling.
According to the video recordings, It was Ayala who launched the attack by pulling the hair of Álvarez, a PAN member, Later, behind his back, representative Rebeca Peralta, of Morena, also attacked opposition representative Claudia Pérez in the same way.
It took several minutes for calm to return.
After these events, the session was interrupted for several minutes and resumed but without the opposition benches who chose to withdraw.
Morena’s coordinator at the Mexico Congress, Xóchitl Bravo took advantage of the situation and closed to ask for a round of applause from legislator Ayala, protagonist of the fight with the PAN deputy.
For her part, the Head of Government of CDMX, Clara Brugada, condemned the acts of violence recorded during the plenary session of the Congress. The president considered that the discussion on the transparency reform, which eliminates the Info CDMX to create a collegial body, does not have much debate and that the objective of the opposition is to postpone the discussion of the 2026 Economic Package.
“I do not see much discussion on this issue (disappearance of Info CDMX), the truth is that it will remain as established by federal laws, we will continue to guarantee the greatest possible autonomy to this institute,” he said.
“I fear that the issue of transparency on the budget issue is just a pretext and that it is instead the most important topic of discussion today,” he said.
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