In total, the vote was 19 senators in favor, 10 against and one abstention, by the PRD senator Miguel Ángel Mancera. The president of the Constitutional Points Commission, Eduardo Ramírez, from Morena, suggested that it is possible to negotiate that there be a budget beforehand, given that what was approved plans to wait until 2024 to provide resources to local police.
The contention block was left with the other part of the PRI, Senator Claudia Ruiz Massieu, with National Action (PAN), Citizen Movement (MC), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) without supporting the reform.
Together, that block presented a proposal for an alternative opinion, with 13 transitory articles in addition to the existing seven, with minimum deadlines and resources tied to the budget so that in 2023 the evaluation and follow-up aimed at the transition to a strengthened National Civil Guard and local police begin. .
The opposition document does contemplate the possibility of extending from 2024 to 2027 the power to dispose of the permanent Armed Forces in public security tasks, provided that the civilian police personnel deployed are informed, report of certified elements, that the monthly incidence of intentional homicides in a state is greater than 1.5 times the national average and prior appearance of the heads of the Secretaries of National Defense, Navy and Security.
The coordinator of the National Action (PAN) senators, Julen Rementería, warned that everything that was included in the approved minute already exists, and Morena and the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have not complied.
“The budget obligation already exists, why now should we believe the federal government that it is going to do things? He says that the Executive must submit a semi-annual report. By God, who believes them? ”, She reproached.
Ruiz Massieu, of the PRI, said that although a support fund is proposed for the consolidation of police institutions of entities, “it is planned from 2024 and that is already a confession that there is no will of the government to strengthen the local police” .
“If we wanted to be serious and fulfill the commitment, we should establish a certain percentage” in addition to the fact that this reform would have the “perverse effect” that if approved, the actions of unconstitutionality presented against various reforms and decisions of the president for the militarization of the country would be without force .
Noé Castañón from MC warned that it will be “very strange” to say the least, any opposition vote that now endorses that document, essentially the same.
