US EditionMexican lawmakers filmed pulling hair and shoving each other during heated Congress floor debate
The brawl erupted as Morena lawmakers tried to remove National Action Party women protesting transparency agency reforms, halting the session temporarily, officials said.
- Congress of Mexico City lawmakers were filmed on Dec. 15 shouting, shoving, and pulling each other's hair on the main podium during a heated session.
- A dispute began when PAN women approached the main podium to protest an alleged rule breach by Morena, and PAN aide Andres Atayde said they acted peacefully, accusing the majority of using violence.
- Chamber footage shows at least five lawmakers elbowing, slapping and trying to remove rivals as spectators and lawmakers recording on phones prompted a temporary suspension of the session.
- After the brawl, the PAN delegation left the chamber and the ruling coalition resumed debate, then approved transparency reforms without opposition, Congress of Mexico City social media posts showed.
- The clash occurred during debate over the transparency agency as Morena spokesman Paulo Garcia accused the opposition of violence, while PAN lawmaker Ms Daniela Alvarez called the majority's actions vulgar and lamentable.
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Lawmakers get into hair-pulling brawl in Mexico City Congress
Lawmakers got into a mass brawl during a heated session of the Mexico City Congress. Politicians were seen grabbing each other by the hair and trading slaps after rival factions tried to remove each other from the podium. Trouble flared over reforms to Mexico City’s transparency oversight committee. Members of the right-wing National Action Party were protesting conduct by the left-leaning Moreno Party, who controls power. Both parties condemned…
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Insults, blows, hairs .... MPs from Mexico State's Parliament smeared in the middle of the assembly, this Monday, December 15, in front of the television cameras that were broadcasting the session live. The fight took place when elected members of the National Action Party, ranked to the right, occupied the platform to protest against an alleged non-compliance with agreements from the ruling Morena Party, ranked to the left.
Insults, shovels, hairs, blows: MPs from Mexico State's parliament shook in the middle of the assembly on Monday in front of the television cameras that broadcast the session live.
In the middle of a discussion, deputies from Morena and Accin Nacional got caught up in a zafarrancho in the middle of the CDMX Congress.
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