Why is there controversy around this reform?
The decision was given with 21 votes in favor and 2 against and 5 abstentions from legislators of the Commission, and in the discussion deputies from Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) proposed imposing restrictions on the red note journalism
However, the legislator of the National Action (PAN) Martha Estela Romo focused the debate on the fact that the Health Commission cannot, through reforms to health laws, issue regulations to the journalistic exercise that in any case should be contemplated in regulations on matters civil.
“Who regulates journalists and the role they have is not the General Health Law,” he said. He asked to return the initiative to be forwarded to the Justice Commission.
He recalled that she presented a similar proposal, but through the modification of the Federal Civil Code, and has been detained in the Justice Commission since 2018.
In addition, on February 9, PRI member Lorena Piñon also presented an initiative to modify that Code, the General Victims Law and the General Health Law.
Instead, the initiative presented on March 15 by Emmanuel Reyes, from Morena, who is president of the Health Commission, was ruled on Monday, May 23.
In the opinion of the PAN member, the legislative technique was not adequately followed, since it is not the Health Law that must be modified if it is sought that posthumous dignity be respected in the journalistic exercise.
The legislative procedure would also have been affected, because before the vote in the Commission, the morenista Angélica Ivonne Luján requested that the opinion of the Ministry of Health be disseminated and her right was denied.
