Tempers flare in Mexico senate as disagreeing politicians push and shove each other

MEXICO CITY -- Tempers flared on Wednesday when two Mexican senators shoved each other during a plenary session in the country's capital.

Alejandro 'Alito' Moreno Cárdenas, national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Gerardo Fernández Noroña, the President of the Senate and member of the Morena party, were seen brawling in footage broadcast by N+.

Other legislators had also been involved in the fight in Mexico City.

It all began when Moreno approached Noroña to complain that he had not been given the floor after the national anthem was sung in the plenary session to conclude the legislative proceedings.

After the incident, Moreno posted a video on his X account giving his version of events. He claimed that it was Noroña who started the aggression.

Noroña announced that he and the Morena party in the Senate would file complaints for damages.

Last September, Mexico's Senate voted to overhaul the country's judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election, a change that critics fear will politicize the judicial branch and threaten Mexico's democracy.

On September 1, 881 judges elected in the Judicial Branch elections on June 1 2025 will be sworn into office before the Senate. With this, the full bench of the Supreme Court will be renewed and will be composed of a majority of five women and four men.