Eduardo Murillo
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, November 11, 2021, p. eleven
The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) obtained a suspension against the Federal Law on Remuneration of Public Servants (LFRSP), which will allow it to continue assigning its commissioners and senior officials salaries higher than those of the President of the Republic.
The first chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) accepted the appeal presented by the institute, in a divided vote of three against two.
The resolution taken by the ministers of the first chamber means that the IFT will not be subject to the LFRSP, at least as long as the SCJN resolves the merits of this constitutional judgment.
The IFT promoted the constitutional trial last July; However, although it was admitted for processing, the minister to whom the matter was assigned refused to grant the suspension, so legally this autonomous body had to continue to abide by all the guidelines of the LFRSP.
The IFT, like other autonomous bodies, such as the National Electoral Institute, the Federal Economic Competition Commission, the Bank of Mexico and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, have fought the LFRSP before the SCJN, since its first version was enacted in November 2018.
In a first ruling, the SCJN ordered the Legislative Power to reform the law, specifying all the items that make up the presidential salary, which is the parameter to set the salaries of the rest of the federal officials.
Thus, the LFRSP was reformed last May; however, these bodies have continued to challenge it before the highest court, now pointing out that submitting to this law would imply damage to their autonomy and independence.
With this strategy they have managed to avoid reducing the salaries of their managers since the LFRSP was enacted.
