Arturo Sánchez Jiménez and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, February 7, 2025, p. 8
It is false that the reforms to the Law of the National Housing Fund for Workers (Infonavit) imply a risk to the agency’s resources, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said yesterday. He clarified that contrary to what some union and business representatives have affirmed, the funds of the Institute and the workers are insured and that the new legislation will guarantee greater transparency and fight against corruption.
The Chief of the Executive expressed in her regular press conference her estrangement for the position of entrepreneurs and unions, who, she said, in previous meetings with the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, expressed their support for the reform that is under discussion in discussion in The Senate. I am surprised that now, after having said they agreed, now they say they are not. This is for the good of the country and workers
he pointed out in the Treasury Hall of Palacio Nacional.
He rejected the accusations made on Wednesday by the Mexican and Employer Regional Confederations of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex), as well as other organizations that the changes will leave a lack of supervision mechanisms of what the institute will invest in building new houses, what that according to them would put 350 billion pesos at risk of their budget, of a total of 800 billion in circulating money.
This approach is false that, as the PAN says, workers’ funds will be used for who knows what. The funds are there, they remain there. Now housing is going to be built, there will be transparency and there will be no corruption, that is the objective of this law
said the president.
The reform raises the restructuring of the Tripartite Council of the Infonavit to guarantee equity and transparency in decision making, in addition to allowing the audit of the Infonavit funds, said the president.
