Previously, with the vote of Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and Verde (PVEM), the so-called fourth transformation bloc rejected the proposals of Senators Damián Zepeda, from Acción Nacional (PAN), and Noé Castañón, from Movimiento Ciudadano ( MC), so that there would be an open parliament on the proposed amendments.
These include the reforms to the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, of the Law of the National Guard, of the Organic Law of the Mexican Army and Air Force in matters of the National Guard, which would be subject administratively and operationally to the National Defense ( Sedena).
And despite the insistence of the national coordinator of MC, Dante Delgado, to summon the head of the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Sánchez Cordero did not put his proposal to a vote.
Delgado warned that articles 11 and 76 of the Constitution give the Senate the exclusive power to approve the National Strategy for Public Security and to hear the respective report, which requires the appearance of the head of the SSPC.
Instead, “here a change of strategy is being proposed and a constitutional mandate is not being fulfilled” that orders the Secretariat to inform the Senate so that it is the one that analyzes and endorses the strategy, he explained.
The initiative is a “communicational pyrotechnics, because the president, instead of presenting that unnecessary proposal, since the 5-year term for the Army to assist in security tasks has not yet expired, should explain the failure in security,” he explained. .
Incredible, consider a concession that the minutes of the National Guard go to Commissions… because if they don’t have another, they don’t have 2/3 parts to avoid it.
There will be broad debate, he says #Brunette, and then says you vote Friday/Saturday. A mockery! we demand #OpenParliament with serious discussion! pic.twitter.com/CRxVRphs1A
– Damian Zepeda (@damianzepeda)
September 6, 2022
“The results continue to be catastrophic, the government’s strategy has failed, among other things, because it did not comply with what was approved: support 240,000 state and municipal police officers who have been abandoned,” he questioned.
“Instead of giving us explanations, as a communicational pyrotechnics exercise, he gets the National Guard to be militarized, which is already militarized, with the argument that if the GN does not go to Sedena there will be corruption when what it should be doing right now it is to explain the reasons for the failure”, he lamented.
In addition to this position, the PAN member Damián Zepeda also called for debate and to extend the discussion to social and civil organizations.
“I am not afraid to say that the public security policy in the country has failed for 15 years, what I do not understand is why the government continues to do the same,” acknowledged the former PAN secretary general.
Germán Martínez, from the Plural Group, lamented the proposal to militarize the GN. “The minute is the monumental confession that there is no justice because there is no peace. If there were peace there would be no need to adjust the strategy. And without peace there will be no fourth transformation.”
“What are they going to tell them in Guerrero? In the (Alejandro) Encinas report, it says that a general participated in the disappearance of the 43 from Ayotzinapa,” said the former Morenoite senator, who advanced: “I am willing to support the National Guard initiative if they find the words of the Plural Group.”
For Morena, Senator Félix Salgado Macedonio insisted that there is no militarization and questioned the security strategies and corporations of the past: “Imagine (Genaro) García Luna here, here again.”
“Who were the inventors of that fact track” were the PRI and the PAN, he said, acknowledging that going to “an open parliament is not bad”, but he voted against it because the opposition does it “for the sake of annoying, annoying”.
The president of the Security Commission, Lucía Trasviña, also from Morena, also stressed that there is no militarization, since the command is in charge of President López Obrador, a civilian, based on a strategy dictated by the SSPC.
López Obrador will follow the same route as the Electricity Law with the National Guard
“There are no substantive changes because it has a civilian command, the president and the Secretary of Security. It will continue in a decentralized Public Security agency, only administrative and operational control is transferred to Sedena, said control will be carried out in accordance with the national public security strategy defined by the SSPC, ”he said.
“The sole administrative and operational dependency” on Sedena does not make the Guard a military officer, he insisted.
Protest in CDMX
Members of social and civil organizations met tonight at the Angel of Independence to protest against the militarization in Mexico, after the approval in the Chamber of Deputies of the reform of the National Guard.
The protest, which began at 8:00 p.m., was called a Veil for Peace and concluded in the Senate of the Republic.
