Senator Lilly Téllez has generated a new controversy due to her absence in a vote on a point of agreement promoted by her party, the PAN. The truth is that during her time in the Senate, in addition to her justified absences, she has left 63 sessions in which she called the roll.
Mexico City, March 31 (However).– The Senator Lilly Tellez faces criticism for missing the vote on a point of agreement promoted by the PAN to summon those in charge of the Mayan Train to appear, but it is not strange that the legislator is not present in the discussions of the Upper Houseas the records of their assists and of their votes.
Since she came to the Senate, in September 2018, first as a Morena member and currently with the PAN, the legislator reports 26 excused absencesfour absences for being on official commission, 12 sessions in which he called the rollbut was not in plenary, and 52 more in which he missed at least one of the votes.
The most recent case occurred yesterday, when Téllez did not attend the vote with which Acción Nacional —the party he arrived at in June 2020— was looking for Javier May Rodríguez, director of FONATUR; María Luisa Albores González, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Blanca Alicia Mendoza Vera, head of the Federal Environmental Attorney’s Office, attended this instance due to “the various irregularities arising from the construction of Section 5 of the Mayan Train”, which from Cancun to Tulum.
The point of agreement was not supported by the majority of the senators present and was rejected. However, on social networks, the PAN Senator was questioned regarding her absence, to which she replied:
“To those who ask me regarding my vote, I thank you and give you an answer: I did not go to the Senate today for a health issue; I have seven hernias in the spine, four cervical and three lumbar. There are bad days, today was one of those.
To those who ask me regarding my vote, I thank them and give them an answer:
I did not go to the Senate today for a health issue; I have seven hernias in the spine, four cervical and three lumbar. There are bad days, today was one of those. https://t.co/mREtlNw2xA— Lilly Tellez (@LillyTellez) March 30, 2022
Article 61 of the Regulations of the Senate of the Republic states that the absence of legislators at the plenary session is only justified when one of the following causes is accredited before the President of the Table, with the pertinent means:
“I. Illness or other health reasons; if applicable, during the pre- and postpartum periods; II. Attendance at work meetings in commissions or committees, which are held simultaneously; III. Fulfillment of official assignments from the Plenary, the Bureau, the Board, the commissions or the committees; IV. Participation in official acts of the Federation, the states or the municipalities; V. Fortuitous event or force majeure; and I saw. Written permission granted by the same President of the Table”.
Meanwhile, Article 60 indicates that it is considered non-attendance at a session when the Senator is not present during nominal voting.
Although Senator Téllez has registered in the system justified absences such as those of last February 16, 22 and 23, which coincide when she announced that she had become ill with COVID-19, there is also a session report, such as that of last March 2 when he was absent in five of the nine votes of the opinions that were discussed in plenary.
I have COVID, I will stay home to recover.
I haven’t lost my craving for chocolates and that’s sure to be a good sign ????— Lilly Tellez (@LillyTellez) February 18, 2022
On other occasions, for example, their attendance is counted, despite not having been absent from the vote in plenary, as happened on Thursday, November 11, 2021, when they did not appear for the vote on the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, as can be verified in the records of the Senate.
The legislator’s faults contrast with the leading role she has acquired in the Upper House, from where she seeks to promote her presidential aspirations that in recent days led her to join the National Action Party, within which she has been identified as the most conservative wing of this political force.
For example, on March 16, he interrupted a session to reproduce the bleating of a sheep with his cell phone, mocking the response given by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the European Parliament. The federal president lamented that MEPs are “joining like sheep” to the “reactionary” and “coup” strategy once morest his government, following this instance asked him to end his “populist rhetoric” once morest the press.
The sheep jump at the voice of the boss ???????? pic.twitter.com/KMsj26gK2T
— Lilly Tellez (@LillyTellez) March 17, 2022
A HISTORY OF FAULTS
In her first year in the Senate, in the first ordinary period, Lilly Téllez, then a member of the Morena Parliamentary Group, had three justified absences, and was also absent from some of the votes that took place in seven sessions; in one of them, that of November 29, she called the roll, but she was not in any of the votes of the three opinions that were discussed, according to the information provided by the Senate.
In the first extraordinary period he was absent, for example, in the ratification of Jesús Seade Kuri, as Undersecretary for North America.
Already in the second ordinary period, from February to April 2019, he had two justified absences in addition to one due to an official commission, and although he called the list in eight sessions, in five of them he did not participate in all the votes and in three he did not vote any of them. the initiatives discussed.
In the second extraordinary period, of the second recess, he attended all the sessions. While in the third extraordinary session he was absent in three of the four sessions: on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, he was not in the vote on an agreement, a day later he was absent in the vote on one of the six opinions discussed that day and on the last day of that period, July 1, he was not in the discussion of two of the five opinions attended.
In her second year as Senator, in the first regular period, she had three excused absences and two more due to official commission. To these absences were added the 16 absences that she had during the voting, of which on two days, October 10 and November 29, she did not participate in any of the matters that the Plenary dealt with.
For the second ordinary period, from February to April 2020, Lilly Téllez had four justified absences and left four sessions, in two of them she did not vote on any of the issues that the Plenary dealt with.
In the first and second extraordinary of that second recess, the legislator, already in the PAN at that time, did not attend the two days of session, although they were justified absences.
Regarding his third year in the Upper House, he had four justified absences at the same time that he left five sessions in the Plenary, on October 29, 2020 he was absent in all the votes that day, while in the on November 18 did not participate in five of the 10 votes on opinions; in the one of a day later she was absent in one of the five votes of opinions. On December 9, he did not attend five of the 14 votes on opinions, and in the vote on one minute, and a day later he missed four of the six votes on opinions, and in one of two agreements.
For the second ordinary period, from February to April 2021, he registered only one justified absence, although he was absent in 10 of the 11 votes of opinions on March 11, and in three of the five votes of opinions on March 17.
In his fourth year in the Senate, Téllez had four justified absences and also left 14 plenary sessions, in three he was absent from all the votes and in 11 he participated in some of the votes, but later left.
And so far in the second ordinary period of sessions, which started in February, he has three justified absences, in addition to being absent in five of the nine votes on opinions that were discussed in the session on March 2.
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He has a degree in Communication and Journalism from the FES Aragón of the UNAM. He also studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.