MEXICO: Interior Min-MORENA & Allies To Fall Short Of Senate Supermajority

Wires carrying comments from Interior Minister Luisa Alcalde claiming that the governing MORENA party and its allies are set to control 64% of the Senate, just short of the two-thirds required for a supermajority. The left-wing nationalist MORENA ran as part of the SHH alliance with the Labour Party and the Mexican Greens in the 2 June general election, in which MORENA candidate Claudia Sheinbaum won the election to succeed outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. 

• MORENA and its allies are believed to have secured a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies based on quick counts. 
• There is the prospect that the Sheinbaum administration, which will take power in October following the inauguration, will be able to work with the centre-left Citizens' Movement (MC). While the two ran on separate electoral platforms, the strong result for MORENA nationwide (winning the presidency, controlling 29/31 governorships, supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies, majority in Senate) could push the MC to work alongside Sheinbaum's alliance. 
• If this scenario does play out it could enable the Sheinbaum administration to seek constitutional amendments, but MC would likely demand concessions or seek to water-down proposals seen as too extreme given the party's moderate stance.