Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Monday, March 15, 2010

PRI reform proposals

Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones, in an op-ed piece in El Universal, outlined the fifteen political reforms that the PRI advocates. Thanks to Daniel Wilson at the blog Under the Volcano for pointing this out and translating.

The PRI/Beltrones political reform package
The PRI submitted their own political reform package in February. This summary is taken from Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones‘  exposition of the package in an op-ed in El Universal:

1. Give the Secretary of Government the authority to exercise Executive power, in the absence or incapacity of the President...

2. Senate ratification for all cabinet officers...

3. Eliminate proportional representation seats in the Senate, and reduce the size of the Chamber of Deputies to 400–300 direct election seats, and 100 proportional election seats.

4. Allow for the immediate re-election of federal and state legislators…


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