For more than twenty years, Mexican professional soccer has operated as a closed circle — the same franchises guaranteed their place at the top regardless of how they perform, insulated from the consequences that define competition elsewhere in the world. Now, Mexico's Senate is advancing legislation to restore promotion and relegation, reopening a long-simmering debate about whether a league can truly call itself competitive when failure carries no cost and ambition has no ladder to climb. The move signals that lawmakers are willing to challenge entrenched ownership interests in the name of a