▲ The two new members of the INAI must be appointed by a qualified majority. In the image, a forum on open government organized by that institute.Darkroom Photo
Andrea Becerril
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday April 2, 2022, p. 9
The process to elect two commissioners of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) advanced in the Senate and yesterday the ruling commissions presented a list, in which they select 13 of the 49 candidates who are They registered to contend for both seats, to the annoyance of some legislators because in the end one more applicant was included.
Ricardo León Caraveo, current commissioner of the Institute of Transparency and Access to Public Information of Tabasco, was left out of the list, whom the opposition valued with low percentages because they consider him close to his countryman, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández.
One day before the Anticorruption, Transparency and Citizen Participation Commissions and the Justice Commission approved the eligibility ruling, after qualifying the 49 candidates, who previously appeared before those bodies, a list was leaked from the opposition with 10 of the applicants supposedly with the highest qualifications, which in the end changed.
Due to this, the commissions met in an atmosphere of annoyance, which was increased because it was decided to include María Solange Maqueo, professor and researcher at CIDE, who, it was said, obtained the same score that was awarded to the sixth selected.
This action broke with the previous decision to select six women and six men, in sextets, from which the two INAI commissioners would be appointed. In the end, it was accepted and the opinion was approved with 18 votes in favor, five against and one abstention.
Among those selected are holders and former holders of state institutes. In this case, there are María de los Ángeles Guzmán García, Zulema Martínez Sánchez, Marina Alicia San Martín Rebolloso, María de los Ángeles Ducoing Valdepeña, in addition to Yadira Alarcón Márquez, counselor of the Judiciary of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City, who in that order they achieved the highest qualification percentages.
As for men, since the call indicates that a male and female commissioner must be elected, the ruling commissions included Ricardo Salgado Perrillat, executive secretary of the National Anticorruption System; Luis Felipe Nava Gomar, INAI liaison with the Legislative Power, and Julio César Bonilla, citizen commissioner of Infocdmx.
Also to Luis Gustavo Parra Noriega, commissioner of the Transparency Institute of the state of Mexico, and Hertino Avilés Alvabera, head of the Electoral Court of Morelos.
Faced with complaints from Germán Martínez, from the plural group, and from other legislators, the president of the Justice Commission, Rafael Espino de la Peña, from Moreno, maintained that the aim was to privilege the capacity of the candidates and the 13 selected were the ones who got the best evaluation. The opinion will turn to the Political Coordination Board, where the political forces must agree to elect two commissioners, by qualified majority.
