Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico’s Government Wants Smaller Congress

The governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, said it would hold a referendum in 2015 to ask voters whether they support eliminating 100 seats in the lower house of Mexico's Congress and 32 in the Senate.

The goal is to cut public spending and make it easier to reach agreements in Congress, PRI chairman Cesar Camacho said.

The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Mexico's Congress, currently has 500 seats, while the Senate has 128 seats.

The PRI is proposing the elimination of deputies and senators who hold seats based on proportional representation.

To hold the referendum . . .

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