“The minutes on the National Guard received in the Upper House will be turned over to the United Commissions of Constitutional Points and Legislative Studies, Second. Like every constitutional reform, the legislative procedure will be applied in all its stages”, he added.
We received in the Senate the minutes with the draft decree that reforms the Fifth Transitory article of the Decree by which various provisions of the Political Constitution are reformed, added and repealed, regarding the National Guard, published on March 26, 2019. pic.twitter.com/j0zOSIk934
– Ricardo Monreal A. (@RicardoMonrealA)
September 15, 2022
For his part, Adán Augusto López, Secretary of the Interior, described the vote as a democratic exercise, based on consensus, in which “peace and security in our country” were prioritized.
“The Congress approved with 335 votes, the constitutional reform to approve that the Armed Forces continue in security and pacification tasks. We continue to consolidate the Transformation,” the official wrote on Twitter.
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Morena congratulated the deputies for approving the extension of the period in which the armed forces will be able to cooperate with the National Guard in security tasks.
“Peace and tranquility are a priority for the government of our president Andrés Manuel López Obrador,” said Mario Delgado, party leader.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) broke the terms of the Go for Mexico alliance and the constitutional moratorium, by approving with 64 votes of its legislators, the extension until 2028 -and not until 2029- the use of military force in tasks of public security.
The new PRI-Morena alliance and its allies, the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party (PVEM) added 335 votes in favor of the reform, that is, a qualified majority, which was accompanied by a drastic reduction in the tone of the criticism from the icing party of the PRI national leader, Alejandro Moreno, whom they accused of corruption and illicit enrichment; now they defended his innocence until proven otherwise.
In total, the reforms received 335 votes in favor, 152 against and 1 abstention. And of the bench of 69 PRI members, two were absent, two voted against –José Yunes and Sue Ellen Bernal- and Ana Lilia Aguilar abstained.
At the last moment, the PRI reversed the proposed deadlines, presented a reservation that was approved, and thus returned to its original proposal: the military force may be used for public security tasks until 2028, that is, nine years in total from the created the National Guard, in 2019, and not a decade, until 2029.
