Mexico’s political leaders ended up in a literal shoving match on the Mexican Senate floor as one demanded time to speak from the podium.

Senator Alejandro Moreno , who leads the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), can be seen in a video posted to social media moving behind the Senate podium to confront Gerardo Fernández Noroña , the president of the Senate. In the video, Moreno pushes Noroña multiple times and hits him in the neck. Noroña responds by pushing back, as another individual tried to come in between the politicians, only for Moreno to toss him to the ground.

Tensions in the Senate were running high as lawmakers debated the United States military coming into the country to help deal with Mexican drug cartels. Moreno was demanding a chance for his side to speak up on the issue. The Senate leader will now call for an emergency session to propose expelling Moreno and others who were involved in the physical incident.

Moreno took to X and accused Noroña of starting the fight.

“He was the one who started the attack; he did it because he couldn’t silence us with arguments,” Moreno wrote.

The Senate leader also reposted a favorable political ad that included footage from the shoving match.

Moreno claimed the Senate president made the first physical contact, and he did so out of “cowardice.”

“That cowardice provoked what came next. Let it be clear: the first physical aggression came from Noroña. He threw the first shove, and he did it out of cowardice. Morena broke the Chamber’s agreement, and Noroña was exposed in his baseness,” the lawmaker wrote. “What happened is not an isolated incident or an accident: it’s part of Morena’s strategy to impose silence and control. That’s how their servile followers act, like Fernández Noroña, with shouts, tricks, and violence.”

Watch above via WJLA .

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