On October 20, 2021, the Chamber of Deputies reached its deadline to send the revenue law and the tax package to the Senate. Expansión explained how the deputies dealt with it. “En el calendario de los legisladores sigue siendo 18 de octubre” (On the legislators’ calendar it is still October 18).
The practice is called stopping the reloj legislativo, the legislative clock. Expansión describes it as a practice of Congress to avoid missing legal and constitutional deadlines. A session opened within the legal limit remains valid.