US EditionFight breaks out between Mexican senate leaders as session ends
The altercation stemmed from denied speaking requests by PRI members, leading to escalating tensions and physical conflict during a Senate session broadcast live.
- Wednesday, Mexico's Senate erupted into a brawl involving Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña and Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas during the national anthem, captured on livestreamed video.
- Denied floor requests escalated into a confrontation after PRI members repeatedly sought the floor, which Gerardo Fernández Noroña denied during a debate over armed forces from other countries.
- Video shows physical interactions including Alejandro Moreno shoving Noroña several times, knocking over a photographer, grabbing Noroña's arm when a woman tried to lead him away, and a staffer pushed to the ground as another legislator grabbed Noroña's collar.
- Fernandez Norona announced he will call an emergency session for Friday to propose expelling Moreno and three other PRI lawmakers, while Moreno claimed Noroña struck first and video shows Moreno repeatedly asking to speak.
- Earlier this year, Noroña became Senate president after Morena and allies expanded their majority in 2024 and Claudia Sheinbaum won the presidency, while the PRI, led by Alejandro 'Alito' Moreno since 2019, remains a weakened opposition in recent years.
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Fight Breaks Out During Mexico Senate Session, Mutiple Punches Thrown * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Anthony
Things got heated during the Mexican Senate’s recent public session. A recent video that has gone viral on X shows two Mexican Senate leaders pushing each other, eventually leading to punches being thrown. Watch the throwdown here: Mexico’s senate erupted into violence with punches, pushing and shouting after an opposition party leader grabbed the chamber’s president as the session was wrapping up https://t.co/9MLUQjnfwP pic.twitter.com/FMEIZbw…
When the legislative session was over and the senators sang the national anthem, 'Alito' Moreno, leader of the PRI, faced Gerardo Fernández Noroña, president of the Bureau, and ended up beating him and a cameraman who tried to stop him.Mexican senator and national president of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno, beat her off with the president of the Senate, the official Gerardo Fernández Noroña, at the end of a session of the Permanent Committee of Cong…
Fight Breaks Out During Mexico Senate Session, Mutiple Punches Thrown
Things got heated during the Mexican Senate’s recent public session. A recent video that has gone viral on X shows two Mexican Senate leaders pushing each other, eventually leading to punches being thrown. Watch the throwdown here: Mexico's senate erupted into violence with punches, pushing and shouting after an opposition party leader grabbed the chamber's president as the session was wrapping up https://t.co/9MLUQjnfwP pic.twitter.com/FMEIZbw…
Speaking to the press after the incident, the two men accused each other: "He started pulling me, pushing me, hitting me and saying, 'I'm going to kill you.'"
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