Andrea Becerril
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 25, 2022, p. 5
The negotiation around the minute that extends until 2028 the participation of the armed forces in public security tasks could last all next week in the Senate, since the PRI insist that the sixth transitory article be modified in an integral way, to reinforce mechanisms of control of the Congress to the military, despite the fact that in the reform they are already established and even oblige the authorities in the matter to render an annual report.
The underlying problem is the division in the PRI caucus, where those who are not related to the leader Alejandro Moreno, wingThey do not agree that part of their colleagues vote on the minutes and intend to impose conditions, commented Senator Antares Vázquez from Morena. There is also, she said, a great inconsistency in the opposition, which is only interested in maintaining its electoral alliance, regardless of the serious problem of insecurity that their governments inherited President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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In the minute that Morena, her allies and the PRI approved in San Lázaro and sent to the Senate, with the modification to the fifth transitory article of the constitutional reform that created the National Guard, it is planned to integrate a commission of deputies and senators to monitor compliance of the provisions of that norm and the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System is obliged to render an annual report.
However, in the negotiations that a group of PRI members carried out with the coordinator of Morena, Ricardo Monreal, they proposed reforming the sixth transitory article, of that same system, so that the reports are every six months and are rendered by the Secretary of Security. and Citizen Protection (SSPC) to the Bicameral Commission of Congress.
In addition to this, it is intended that the latter summon the heads of the Secretaries of National Defense (Sedena), of the Navy and of the SSPC to appear before that Bicameral Commission of Congress, also to evaluate the operation of the National Guard.
Those points had already been agreed upon with Morena, but last Wednesday morning two PRI senators decided not to vote on the minute and proposed that it also be confirmed that there will be sufficient resources for the state and municipal police and the guarantee that they will be trained.
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In this regard, PVEM senator Rogelio Israel Zamora stressed that it is the opposition governors who have not bothered to strengthen their state police. He gave the example of Tamaulipas, which is still governed by the PAN, which only dedicated 3 billion pesos, that is, 4.9 percent of its budget, to public security.
Likewise, the PAN government of Guanajuato, which is among the most violent in the country, of its budget of 92 billion pesos, allocated 5 billion to public security, 5.6 percent, and in the case of Aguascalientes, 4 percent.
Senator Zamora stressed that Jalisco, governed by Movimiento Ciudadano, out of an expenditure of 137 billion pesos, only used 3.7 percent for security, and Nuevo León, 5.5 percent.
In contrast, he stressed, in Mexico City, 14 billion pesos, which represent 16.3 percent of the budget, went to combat insecurity, almost triple what the opposition governments allocate, but in a speech of simulation and selfishness
PAN, PRI, MC and PRD legislators maintain that they are concerned that there are not enough resources for the state and municipal police.
