Andrea Becerril and Fernando Camacho Servín
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, September 28, 2024, p. 11
Next week four reforms of the so-called plan C of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The Senate plans to endorse the minutes on increases in the minimum wage above inflation and the one that seeks to elevate the Youth Building the Future program to constitutional status.
Both were received by the full Senate in the afternoon session last Tuesday and transferred to committees, and legislators from Morena and its allies considered that they can be approved unanimously, as happened in the Chamber of Deputies.
The minute that reforms Constitutional article 123 to establish that The increase in general or professional minimum wages or their revision will never be below the inflation recorded during its validity.
It was approved by 438 votes in favor and zero against, and we hope that all political forces will support it here as well.
given the great relevance it implies for the economy of Mexican workers, commented Morenoist senator Óscar Cantón.
The legislator added that it is the same case of the reform that leads to the Magna Carta Young People Building the Future, since given the nobility of this social program, the support of the opposition is expected so that it is also approved unanimously.
It must be recognized, he explained, that this government support for young people between 18 and 29 years old is equally important because it allows those who do not study or work to receive a minimum wage for 12 months and social security while they train.
From 2109 to date, he added, the federal government allocated nearly 129 billion pesos for 2.97 million young people who benefited, who thus begin to enter the labor market.
Senator Cantón Zetina, current secretary of the Constitutional Points Commission who next week will take over the leadership of that working body – left by Ernestina Godoy – commented that the legislative process around these two minutes will not be as polarizing as it was in the case of the judicial reforms and the National Guard.
Others will come later in which the majority group will once again confront the opposition, especially the one in which the majority of the autonomous organizations disappear and the one related to the electrical industry.
Pemex, CFE and railways
In turn, in the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 8, the constitutional initiatives on the new boost to passenger railways and on the preponderance that Pemex and the CFE should have in the energy sector will be approved, which will be renamed as public companies
instead of State productive companies
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This was indicated by the coordinator of the Morena bench in San Lázaro, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, who stated that they are already being drafted
the regulatory laws of the reform of the Judicial Branch.
October 7 It will be the turn of the railway workers to prioritize passenger transport in the country, and a series of measures so that the Mexican State can use the railways.
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A day later, “the energy reform will be discussed and possibly approved, where the concept of ‘state productive companies’ changes to ‘public companies’, in the case of those like the CFE and others.”
