With the new legislation, according to Morena, problems that arose in previous administrations will be addressed, in which the free movement of illegal merchandise was allowed, the operation of planes without registration, the use of junk units, with risk for air transport users and for national security and sovereignty.
On the other hand, for Acción Nacional (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Movimiento Ciudadano, discussion with the specialists must have been promoted because it was a technical issue.
With the decision, warned Senator Emilio Álvarez Icaza, of the Plural Group, “one more piece is added to this authoritarian board, today we want to take another step towards the militarization and militarism of Mexico, more powers are given to the Armed Forces and they are taken away from the civil authorities.
“Today, it must be said with regret, the Armed Forces co-govern with López Obrador,” he accused in the debate.
The legislator reproached Morena for giving another civil task to military commanders.
“As soon as Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto did the same, you were against it. The popularity indicators of the Armed Forces today are the same as then and they opposed it, because they believed that freedoms and rights had to be defended, ”he recalled.
“Military intervention in civil affairs, particularly those related to civil aviation, nationally and internationally, must be exceptional and must remain so,” stated Marco Antonio Gama Basarte, for Movimiento Ciudadano.
He criticized that approving one of the most technically complex opinions that have been discussed in the Senate “in barely 30 minutes, as was the meeting of the Commission, and without modifying a single comma from the one that was sent to us by the co-legislator, is simple and simply the decomposed urgency of the legislators of the ruling party to ingratiate themselves with the first morenista of the nation ”.
The intention – warned the EMECist – is to reduce the competence of the Office of Navigation Services in the Mexican Air Space (Seneam), and to expand the interference of the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) and the Ministry of the Navy (Semar ) in the control of national airspace, “without considering the international regulations to which it is already subject.”
