Sheinbaum presents the law to eliminate bureaucratic procedures and corruption

Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia

La Jornada newspaper
Friday, January 31, 2025, p. 9

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo presented the national law yesterday to eliminate bureaucratic procedures and corruption, which will promote against Congress, in order to promote the simplification of procedures and the fight against the illicits in the public service.

The head of the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency, José Antonio Peña Merino, said that with this rule they will be reduced by half procedures, requirements and resolution times, and at least 80 percent of all the procedures will be carried out online.

He explained that there are more than 7 thousand at the national scale, and the most common are taxes, passports and environmental permits. On average, each State has 523 – among them civil and public registration of property – and each municipality 144, including water, cadastre and property.

A person, he said, performs during his life about 486 procedures, of which 85 percent are state or municipal.

Peña Merino stated that with this law they seek to eliminate obstacles to people and companies and, as the Constitution and the T-MEC, maintain good regulatory practices, as well as to facilitate that people access what they are entitled.

He explained that there will be a national model of simplification and digitalization by a single authority (at the federal level, the digital agency), a catalog and a unique citizen portal of procedures and services, so that there is less opportunity for arbitrariness.

The MX key will be a digital identity mechanism, associated with the file for both natural and moral persons.

In the town of the town, Peña Merino stressed that the procedures of greater volume of use and that they serve to groups with greater vulnerability must be prioritized. For nationals abroad, the catalog includes 52 procedures.

We start in December with civil registry procedures, because they are the most demanded, from certified copy, book correction, etc.he added, and this month We are concluding everything that has to do with passports.

The official made his presentation with the National Law of Simplification and Digitization, but the president indicated that they would change the name of the National Law to eliminate bureaucratic procedures and corruption. This is going to be called; That is the objective, that the procedures decrease and any possibility of corruption between a window and the citizen are eliminated.

To the express question, the president confirmed that the Federal Telecommunications Institute brought back the concessions he granted when his disappearance process was already ongoing.

And before the resignation of Salvador Landeros as director of the Mexican Space Agency, he said that this instance does not disappear, but that It is strengthened. It changes its name when two areas that have to do with this topic are integrated, and if the doctor wants to continue participating, welcome, whether coordinating or from outside, with his advice. Mexsat (operational part of the satellites), with the powers of the space agency and create the Mexican space program.