The proposal was presented in February 2022 by the Morenista deputy Bennelly Jocabeth Hernández Ruedas, who in her proposal admits that the legislation is out of use, since it dates from 1917, but proposed increasing the sanctions to update it.
The Governance Commission gave its endorsement with 20 votes in favor and nine against. In 2020, the then bench of Morena -with other members- sought to repeal that law as inoperative and expired since it is 106 years old, but today they seek to revive it.
In accordance with the legislator’s initiative, when the fines are reduced, “it is cheap” to commit the offenses, for which reason she proposed that minimum wages, as is currently in the law, be raised by valuing them in Units of Measurement and Update (UMA). ).
Currently, insults to the Executive warrant from six months of arrest to a year and a half in prison and a penalty of 100 to 1,000 pesos.
The approved opinion accepted the proposal and proposes to quadruple the sanctions so that they are from 5 to 40 UMAS. Each UMA is 103.74 pesos for this year, which is equivalent to fines of 518.7 pesos to 4,149.6 pesos.
The same fine will apply in the case of insults to the secretaries of the office, to the Attorney General of the Republic, to the Governors, to the person in charge of the Headquarters of Government, but the increase in the sanction is 8 times, because today insulting This type of officials carries fines of 100 to 500 pesos.
Sanctions are raised 13 times in the case of insults to ministers of the Supreme Court, judges, federal or local legislators, generals or colonels “in the act of exercising their functions or because of them.”
Today insulting these public servants deserves a fine of 50 to 300 pesos and six months of arrest, the economic sanction will be increased to a maximum of 40 UMAS, that is, 4,149.6 pesos.
