In 2020, the then Morena bench –with other members– sought to repeal that law as inoperative and expired since it is 106 years old, but today they are seeking to revive it, quadrupling the current amount established to sanction insults to the President.
It should be noted that currently the insults to the Executive merit from six months of arrest to a year and a half in prison and a penalty of 100,000 pesos.
But with the approved opinion, it is accepted to quadruple the sanctions so that they are from 5 to 40 UMAS. Each UMA is 103.74 pesos for this year, which is equivalent to fines of 518.7 pesos to 4,149.6 pesos.
The same fine would apply in the case of insults to the secretaries of the office, to the Attorney General of the Republic, to the Governors, to the person in charge of the Headquarters of Government. Now insulting this type of officials entails fines of 100 to 500 pesos.
The sanctions would be raised 13 times in the case of insults to ministers of the Supreme Court, judges, federal or local legislators, generals or colonels, “in the act of exercising their functions or because of them.”
Insulting these public servants at this time deserves a fine of 50 to 300 pesos and six months of arrest. The economic sanction will be increased to a maximum of 40 UMAS, that is, 4,149.6 pesos.
