A nasty brawl between lawmakers erupted in the Mexican Senate chamber, with one politician threatening to “kill” his opponent. Senate president Gerardo Fernandez Norona, 65, was singing the national anthem with party members when an irate opposition leader, Alejandro Moreno, 50, charged at him. “I’m asking you to let me speak,” Moreno is heard saying in Spanish on a livestream of the session. Norona demands that Moreno stop touching him, and the skirmish only intensifies. The two men push each other, and Moreno sends an aide flying with an aggressive shove. Bodies pile into the melee, and another lawmaker is seen swinging at Norona as he backs off. “(Moreno) started pulling on me, touching me, pushing. He hit me and said, ‘I’m going to beat the s--t out of you, I’m going to kill you,’” Norona said after the incident. He added that the disagreement came about after a “difficult debate” about armed forces from other countries being stationed in Mexico. He proposed expelling Moreno and three other lawmakers for causing the “cowardly aggression,” as he called it on X. Moreno, however, said Norona swung at him first.
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