The fighting Mexico senators
Mexican senators came to blows Wednesday after a heated debate over alleged opposition calls for the United States to intervene militarily against drug cartels.
Lawmaker Alejandro Moreno, leader of the opposition PRI party, went to the podium as Wednesday’s session ended and angrily confronted Senate president Gerardo Fernandez Norona, of the ruling Morena party, for not being given the floor.
Moreno can be seen in a video posted on social media by Mexico’s Senate pushing Fernandez Norona several times, slapping him on the neck and pushing another man to the ground when he tried to intervene.
The brawl followed a heated debate during which the opposition PRI and PAN were accused of calling for US military intervention, a claim that both parties deny.
Norona said later he would file a complaint against Moreno for bodily harm and request that his legislative immunity be revoked.
“The debate could be very harsh, very bitter, very strong… today when (opposition legislators) are exposed for their treason, they lose their minds because they were exposed,” he said.
Moreno accused Norona of initiating the attack, saying on social media platform X: “He was the one who started the attack; he did it because he couldn’t silence us with arguments.” Punch
