The PAN is still against
The national leader of the National Action (PAN), Marko Cortés, stressed this Sunday that his party will insist on opening a debate on the issue for a shift in the security strategy, but based on the strengthening of the civil police, not in the Armed Forces. Armed.
“What we ask is that Mexico have a civil police like all the other countries in the world. Only dictatorships have military police, all democratic countries, all of them, have civilian police and the armed forces, what we ask is that they support, as second responders, the civilian police,” said the PAN leader.
He rejected that his party wants the military to go to the barracks: “We say that it is clearly not (that) our position. The only one who has promised and not fulfilled that the military would return to the barracks is (President Andrés Manuel) López Obrador. No, what we say is that there must be a national police, a civil police”.
That citizen police – he added – must be “the first responder in any security situation.”
“That our armed forces always go behind, as second responders, but not ahead; that their actions adhere to the constitutional text, but today what Mexico deserves is a civilian police force, like any democratic country in the world,” he added.
