The Politician Leading a Sweeping Overhaul of Mexican Politics
As head of Morena in the lower house, Ricardo Monreal is at the forefront of a bid to recast Mexico’s legal framework—and has his own ambitions, too.
Ricardo Monreal likes to talk about the constituyente permanente, the legislative power to rewrite Mexico’s constitution. It’s a power that his Morena party is currently making full use of—and Monreal is at the head of the charge. As leader of the Morena-led coalition in the country’s lower house, which has a dominant supermajority, Monreal is pushing through sweeping reforms that are shaking Mexico’s political system to its foundations. The lower house’s approval of a law on November 20 dissolving seven watchdog public bodies (it now goes to the Senate) is just one part of an...
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