President Andrés Manuel López Obrador insisted that Morena and his allies maintain a simple and absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, after election day, and suggested that if he needed a qualified majority for constitutional reforms, he could negotiate with the PRI or with other opposition parties.

“If you wanted to have a qualified majority, which is two-thirds, you could reach an agreement with a part of PRI legislators or any other party, but you don't need many for the constitutional reform,” he said in his conference morning when talking about the districts obtained by the parties after the election.

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López Obrador maintained that the alliance of his party, Morena, with the PT and the Green Party will also suffice for the approval of the budget.

“With a simple majority, half plus one, we have that majority comfortably, we already have the budget, it is already assured, as I said yesterday, that the pensions continue,” he said.

Meanwhile, Alejandro Moreno, national leader of the PRI, indicated that the party will be open to dialogue with all political forces and with the federal government.

“There will be public dialogue with everyone, in the dark with no one. The opposition bloc is being built to have a joint agenda, that does not mean that the PRI has its own agenda and that we sit down to talk with the President of the Republic and the federal government," he told Reforma after a joint conference with the PAN and the PRD.

Morena and her allies, PT and PVEM would have an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies with 279 legislators, according to preliminary figures. Although by itself, no party managed to have a majority.

With 99.5% of the tally sheets captured in the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP), the alliance made up of Morena, PT and the Green Party achieved 184 deputies by relative majority (direct vote). While by proportional representation (plurinominal) 92 legislators would correspond to the alliance, according to an analysis by the CIDE political scientist, Javier Márquez.

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