Beatriz Paredes clashed with Citlalli Hernández in the Senate: “Many adjectives, few arguments”

In the Senate of the Republic, the Mining Law was widely discussed hours before its adoption, where there was a confrontation between opposition legislators and Citlalli Hernández .

The first to go to the rostrum was Citlalli Hernández, who recently asked to return to the Senate, after requesting her leave to serve as Morena General Secretary.

During his speech, he assured that in 2013, the senate committed a “betrayal of the homeland”, or what was called “The Great Robbery of the Century”, referring to the approval of the structural reform package of Enrique Peña Nieto, PRI president.

He recalled that the Energy Reform was one of the 11 reforms, but despite multiple protests, “with bribes and money involved, the legislative majority voted for the reform that gave energy resources to foreign ambitions.”

“They voted against the people, the people are already judging them and will judge them for treason,” the senator emphasized, adding that they will vote “in favor of the reform of the Mining Law, obeying the popular mandate, because we believe in the capacity of technicians and professionals in Mexico,” among other reasons.

“Gentlemen of opposition, your resistance to change is putting you in a spiral of self-deception, of visceral and petty reactions that put a blindfold over your eyes to avoid realizing that the decision to oppose the defense of Mexico's sovereignty and development will mark you in history as those who preferred to defend the interests of economic power “, concluded Morenista Hernández Mora.

For her part, Senator Beatriz Paredes, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), asked her counterpart Citlalli Hernández Mora a a question, but seconds before she warned her that “I am not a traitor to Mexico or the nation.”

And he also took up what Senator Martha Lucia Micher Camarena de Morena said during her time on the stand about the lack of arguments throughout the discussion.

“One of the serious shortcomings of the session is that there were many adjectives and little discussion with arguments. I respect the arguments he has expressed, they correspond to a deeper and more substantive debate”, he concluded.

Beatriz Paredes' response was celebrated virally through social media, where supporters, especially on Twitter, referred to the senator as a policy “with class, category, restraint and vision,” among other flattery.

Minutes later, the Mexican senators approved the Mining Law Reform with 87 votes in favor, 20 against and zero abstentions, which promotes the been the only one who will be able to use lithium.

It also proposes the creation of an autonomous public body to ensure that the State can take advantage of all the advantages that this metal may attract.

In order for this minute to reach the Senate, the federal deputies had to approve the draft decree promoted by the federal executive. The result of the vote was 298 demonstrations in favor, 197 abstentions and zero against.

The promotion of this initiative was due to the refusal obtained by the Electricity Reform on Sunday, April 17, 2022, where it was rejected because it did not obtain a qualified majority.

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