Mexico City. A few hours before the start of the General Congress of the Union, which will kick off the new Legislature, some three hundred people marched from the National Palace to the Chamber of Deputies, where they demanded that legislators approve the initiative to reduce the working week to 40 hours.
Upon arriving at the San Lázaro precinct, the now former federal deputy Susana Prieto, who resigned from the Morena bench last February, said that the supporters of the movement for the reduction of the working day have expressed to her that the creation of a workers’ political party that “truly represents the workers” is necessary. Prieto Terrazas stated that they will analyze this possibility, to make a decision before January.
Carrying flags and banners to make this request, the protesters gathered at one side of the Zócalo square in the capital, an hour before the start of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s address on the occasion of his sixth report.
They marched through the streets of the city center, through the La Merced neighborhood, to reach the Chamber of Deputies on Zapata Street.
Prieto Terrazas accused the federal government of deciding to make the government report at the same time as this march, which has been called for three months. He recalled that the resolution on the reduction of the working day has been ready to be voted on since April of last year, but, he said, it was labeled as an electoral initiative and its discussion was stopped.
He questioned the postponement of this debate to achieve a consensus with the business class, since “everything that comes by consensus is useless.” He also announced that they will organize new marches, demonstrations and forums to inform the population of this proposal, as well as “to show what the majority in the Chamber of Deputies is doing, what Morena is doing, turning its back on the people’s proposals.”
The federal deputy said that she has been told of the need to create a political party, which, she noted, requires a lot of organizational work.
“It could always be a way (to form a party)… I think that a workers’ party could be a solution to continue organizing the contingents and to continue with a national agenda,” he added.
If they agree, he said it would be a decision among all the members of this movement. The contingent that marched on Sunday, he said, is a sign that people are beginning to wake up.
After spending a couple of hours in front of the Chamber of Deputies, the protesters retreated towards the Palace of Fine Arts.
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