The Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies was voting on an initiative regarding the National Water Law, when Cuauhtémoc Blanco was surprised and paraded by the legislators present at the session.
Mexico City, October 20 (However).- The Morenoist legislator, Cuauhtémoc Blancowas caught this afternoon practicing padel while a blended session of the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
In it video that circulates through social networks You can see the remote session that the men and women were carrying out. legislators of this commission, when asked White Deputy emit the meaning of your vote. With the clear sound of “rackets” in the background, can be seen Blanco with a tired face and totally unaware of what was happening with his coreligionists.
Blanco did not even realize that the legislators were voting and, when speaking, he only asked that his attendance be recorded. Merilyn Gómez Pozos, Representative of Morena, asked the meaning of her vote, but after confirming her attendance, Cuauhtémoc Blanco disconnected from the session again without even realizing what had happened.
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The episode provoked ridicule and laughter from the other deputies who claimed that he was playing paddle tennis. “Up to here you can hear the rackets,” said Mario Zamora, PRI deputy, taking the opportunity to cast his vote against.
The Budget Commission of this legislative chamber approved with 32 votes in favor, 11 against and zero abstentions its opinion on the budgetary impact of the initiative issued by the General Water Law, which reforms, adds and repeals various provisions of the National Water Law, presented by the President of the Republic, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Merilyn Gómez Pozos, who chairs the aforementioned commission, assured that the approval of the General Water Law would not generate a budgetary impact for the federal budget, given that its provisions do not include the creation of administrative units, positions or new organizations, nor the establishment of new, qualitatively different powers for the State.
Deputy Cuauhtémoc Blanco was registered for a period of one year and six months in the National Registry of Persons Sanctioned in Matters of Gender-Based Political Violence of the National Electoral Institute (INE) for acts committed against former federal representative Juanita Guerra Mena. The determination against the Deputy was made by the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation on July 9.