LEGISLATIVE WORK OF THE PVEM 2000-2005 .

In accordance with the political scientist, Jeffrey Weldon, an outstanding investigator of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, ("The Spring of 2002 Term of the Mexican Congress", Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Washington, 2003), the fractions of the Green Party in both Chambers of the Mexican
Congress, were the ones to show one of the best performances in the LVIII Legislative Period (2000-2003) **

Senate of the Republic

• The Green Party is the smallest fraction in the Senate of the Republic, with only 5 Senators - 4% of the 128 Senators that total this Chamber -.
  
• In spite of it, the fraction of the PVEM presented 55 initiatives, that is to say, 8.2% of all the initiatives that were presented from 2000 to 2003 in the LVIII Legislature of the Senate.
  
• This means that the Green Party in the Senate presented practically the same number of initiatives as those that
  the PRD presented and it was very near the percentage of initiatives that the PAN presented.
  
• Also, as an average, 1.4 law initiatives were approved by each Senator of the Green Party, while the rest of the political parties could not approve even one law for each one of their legislators in the Senate. This made the fraction of the Green Party the most productive for each legislator in the period from year 2000 to 2003.
  

Chamber of Deputies

• In a similar way, the Green Party during the LVIII Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies, had a bench of 16 legislators, 3.2% of the 500 deputies in this Chamber.
  
• This parliamentary fraction presented 89 initiatives of law from 2000 to 2003, more than 5% of the law initiatives that were presented in the same period in the Chamber of Deputies."
  
• Also in the Chamber of Deputies, the Green Party was the most productive political party for each legislator during the LVIII Legislature, since it was the only fraction that was able to approve an average of almost an initiative for each deputy ..
  
• Also, as parliamentary fraction, the Green Party of Mexico was one of the most effective, since 19.7% of the initiatives presented were approved, only below the fraction of the PAN that had an effectiveness of 21% of approved initiatives.

THE INITIATIVES OF LAW OF THE PVEM

Among the diverse law initiatives approved in the LVIII Legislative Period, that deserved being mentioned by the Center of Strategic and International Studies, because of their importance, were several proposals presented
by the Green Party of Mexico ( Partido Verde Ecologista México):

1. Law of Civil Responsibility for Nuclear and Radio-active Damages
2. Law of Civil Responsibility for Damage and Environmental Deterioration
3. General Law for the Prevention and Integral Administration of Residuals

From the point of view of Jeffrey Weldon, Doctor in Political Science at the University in San Diego, California (UCSD) and an academic of the ITAM in the Federal District (D.F.), the previous initiatives of the PVEM are sample of the legislation quality that the LVIII Legislature approved.

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