Victor Ballinas and Andrea Becerril
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, October 19, 2022, p. 8
The head of the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, will appear this Wednesday before the plenary session of the Senate for the gloss of the fourth presidential report. She will be accompanied by members of the security cabinet, as happened last year, but only she will intervene.
The president of the Political Coordination Board, Ricardo Monreal, specified in a press conference that the Secretaries of National Defense (Sedena), Luis Cresencio Sandoval, and of the Navy (Semar), José Rafael Ojeda, will attend, but only to accompany Rodriguez.
He added that it was left for an opportune moment, when the governing bodies of the Senate consider it, summon the other members of the security cabinet to appear individually, including the heads of Sedena and Semar
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In today’s session, the heads of Sedena and Semar are not required to appear
Monreal stressed; for this reason, yesterday the format was modified and it was clarified that only the person in charge of public security will intervene, as has been traditional, the only one who will have the singing voice is her
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The also Morena coordinator insisted that yes it is convenient that the secretaries Sandoval and Ojeda appear, for that reason we leave that provision safe. We can call them to appear individually. Simply, this Wednesday we are going to privilege listening to the secretary, who is constitutionally the head of the security cabinet
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On the other hand, yesterday the Human Rights Commission of the Senate, headed by PAN member Kenia López Rabadán, approved an agreement to summon the head of the CNDH, Rosario Piedra Ibarra, to appear before the plenary session.
The agreement approved with seven votes in favor, four against and one abstention, establishes that the board of directors of the Senate will be the body in charge of defining the format, date and time of the appearance.
