Last Wednesday, the Chamber of Deputies received the bill from the Senate that proposes extending until 2028 the use of the Armed Forces in public security tasks.
The deputies had already analyzed the issue: on September 14 they approved a reform to the transitory article 5 of the 2019 constitutional decree that created the National Guard, to endorse that extension, but the senators made changes and now the debate returned to the legislative headquarters of Saint Lazarus.
The article already establishes that while the National Guard develops its structure, capabilities and territorial implementation, the armed forces can be used in security tasks for five years. That article was approved in 2019, so the term expires in March 2024.
However, at the proposal of the PRI, the extension to new years was endorsed, until 2028.
