Enrique Mendez
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, p. 6
The Constitutional Affairs Committee presented the draft opinion to endorse without changes the presidential initiative to eliminate the autonomous bodies in charge of evaluating anti-poverty policies, regulating economic competition and monitoring radio and television concessionaires, including the one in charge of obligations regarding transparency and protection of personal data.
This is part of the reforms of plan C that involve changes to the Constitution. In its considerations, the commission proposes the public bodies that would be disintegrated so that their functions would be assumed by departments of the Executive, which were created as a result of the promotion of a neoliberal public administration model dating back to the 1990s
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The project, which has already been distributed to the deputies, supports the extinction of the Federal Economic Competition Commission, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Cofece), the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval), the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai), the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH), the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) and the National System for Continuous Improvement of Education (Mejoredu).
It also provides for the dismissal of the commissioners of Cofece, CNH, CRE, Ifetel and Inai, as soon as the reform comes into force.
The powers constitutionally vested in autonomous bodies and regulatory entities would be transferred to the Ministries of Economy, Infrastructure, Civil Service, Energy and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography.
For the commission chaired by Morena, these are organizations that were granted their own budget and powers by the Constitution, as well as budgetary independence and powers. torn off
of the basic dependencies of the Executive.
Among his arguments, he points out that They have not been exempt from duplicating functions with other entities or departments, they have caused procedures and processes to be segmented, even though they should be integrated, which in turn has resulted in higher budgetary costs, uncertainty, deficiencies and institutional weakness.
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The initiative highlights how since 2018 the entities to be extinguished have received 32 thousand 313 million 546 thousand 205 pesos from the budget, an amount that would be equivalent to 5 million 385 thousand 591 bi-monthly pensions for senior citizens
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