The Chamber of Senators will close today its first period of ordinary sessions of the first year of exercise of the LXVI Legislature without having finalized the majority of the issues included in the legislative agendas of the six parliamentary fractions represented in its plenary session, due to giving priority to the package of constitutional amendments promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the final stretch of his government.
Of the 203 issues that the PAN parliamentary group proposed to discuss between September and December, in matters of security and justice, social development, economy and sustainable development, and domestic and foreign policy, practically none were addressed.
The PRI’s proposals on health, security, gender equality, social development, rule of law and political system, economy, development, environment and climate change were also left out.
The approval of the reform that establishes the minimum bases that the federal Executive must consider in the formulation of the strategy to articulate a true transexennial security policy that gives rise to the progressive withdrawal of the Armed Forces from their public security tasks, promoted by the MC senatorial bench as part of the new national public security strategy, could not be materialized either.
On the other hand, of the López Obrador reforms to the Constitution announced in Claudia Sheinbaum’s last presidential campaign, the Upper House approved 12.
Among these, the reform of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) and the one that extinguishes seven autonomous bodies, such as the National Institute of Transparency, stand out.
Two constitutional reforms promoted by Sheinbaum were also approved, such as giving the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection criminal investigation tasks.
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For his part, yesterday Deputy Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, president of the Board of Directors, formally declared the work of the Chamber of Deputies, corresponding to the first period of sessions, completed.
He said that 16 constitutional reforms were approved, “with moments of intense debate.” Of these reforms, it is worth mentioning, all were promoted by the ruling party.
Gutiérrez Luna asked the deputies who are members of the Permanent Commission to appear on Wednesday the 18th at the legislative precinct of San Lázaro for the installation of that body of the Congress of the Union.
