Morena leaders, including Luisa María Alcalde and Guillermo Rafael Santiago, have denied speculations about preserving the current plurinominal system in the electoral reform, stating changes will strengthen representativeness and cut costs. Negotiations continue at the Secretaría de Gobernación, with allies PT and PVEM. Ricardo Monreal corrected his initial claim that the issue was settled.
Mexico's electoral reform, pushed by Morena, remains in negotiation, focusing on plurinominal legislators representing proportionality in Congress. Guillermo Rafael Santiago Rodríguez, Morena's representative before the National Electoral Institute (INE) and federal deputy for Chiapas's District 9, rebuked party figures for speculating on supposed changes. In an interview with El Financiero, he stated: “there will be changes” in plurinominales to achieve “greater representativeness and legitimacy for those who represent the people.” He urged respecting the timelines of dialogue tables at the Secretaría de Gobernación and awaiting the formal initiative presentation, as “to date, the project has not been presented to Congress.”
Meanwhile, Luisa María Alcalde, Morena's national president, denied on social media that the party intends to keep the current system: “it is false that Morena intends to maintain the current plurinominal system; additionally, we maintain that a substantial reduction in party budgets is feasible.” This contradicts an initial statement by Ricardo Monreal, Morena's deputy coordinator, who from Querétaro claimed the issue “is overcome and will remain as it is currently: 300 majority, 200 plurinominales.” Monreal later corrected: “agreements are advanced, not concluded.”
Alcalde stressed the need to rethink proportional representation mechanisms and bolster citizen participation, criticizing INE bureaucracy and high party budgets like PAN's (1.2 billion pesos) and PRI's (nearly 1 billion). The goal is a more efficient democracy, with lower costs and without privileges for political elites, aligned with the Fourth Transformation's austerity. Morena, alongside PT and PVEM, seeks a reform benefiting the people, ensuring voting clarity, and preventing plurinominales from protecting criminals. The Broad Democratic Front has labeled the proposal a setback, but Alcalde dismissed it as “a series of lies.”
