Two extra breaks during the Fourth Transformation

Two breaks during the Fourth Transformation

The new legislators in the Chamber of Deputies , during the Fourth Transformation , they assigned themselves two breaks in November, so they will get nine days off during November 2018. The first will be on the Day of the Dead ; the legislators won't skip work, they will just carry out the November 1st session on October 31, to rest from Friday to Monday. The second break will last 4 days to commemorate the Mexican Revolution and they will get Monday 19 off, but the deputies will take a break starting on November 16and will go back until November 20. With this schedule, they say, they won't miss out on their two sessions per week. Are they more hardworking than the previous Legislature ?

Beltrones's message

The former PRI leader, Manlio Fabio Beltrones , held a meeting with his fellow member from the 62nd Legislature . He spread two important messages among his coreligionists: the fact that he's going to create a Civic Association that will dedicate itself to analyze the PRI 's situation, in order to begin a deep transformation, and that there's a strong defense of the structural reform s implemented by the current administration, not that they're being vilified by Andrés Manuel López Obrador 's team. We're told Beltrones didn't include the tax reform, which he considers a mistake. And regarding the President-elect , we're told the former Sonora Governor thinks that he's making mistakes and is constantly wearing himself out, a situation that should be taken advantage of by PRI members to recover the party's position in the intermediate elections in 2021 . Can they?

Traditional snacks in the Senate

In the Senate , while Morena implements its austerity plan, the PRI's bench leader , Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong , bought and shared some traditional pastries , made of meat and potatoes, which is beyond what any Morena member can carry inside their plastic containers. “Pastries are a whole meal”, he said, referring to the pastry that the English fed their silver mine workers in Hidalgo and which has turned into a typical dish from his home state. We will have to wait and see if senators from Sonora and Chihuahua will bring burritos , the ones from Yucatán might bring cochinita pibil , and the ones from Michoacán could bring carnitas . There will be typical Mexican food at the Senate .

The SCT and the sinkhole investigation

For the Communications and Transport Ministry , the issue of the sinkhole in the express highway in Cuernavaca , where a car fell in and two people died during an “ inefficient ” rescue mission , was finalized once 7 public servants were sanctioned. We're told that the SCT , led by Gerardo Ruiz Esparza , showed that additional constructions, as the case of pedestrian bridges, vehicular bridges, slopes, walls, and drainage, as well as lighting and the installation of hydraulic concrete instead of asphaltic concrete were justified. The existence of the executive project with which the construction was tendered after it was said the project didn't exist. The add that the construction was completed and operating 11 months ago.

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