▲ Plenary session in the Senate, last Thursday.Photo Yazmín Ortega Cortés
Andrea Becerril
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 30, 2024, p. 4
The constitutional reform that extinguishes seven autonomous organizations, including the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), is advancing rapidly in local congresses.
Until last night, 11 state legislatures had endorsed it and sent the documentation to the Senate, one day after this reform regarding organic simplification
It was approved by that chamber.
In fact, five of those state congresses (Mexico City, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Zacatecas) met hours after the modification to various articles of the Magna Carta was voted in the Senate, last Thursday the 28th. They were joined by yesterday, Friday, those of Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas and Veracruz.
The reform extinguishes, in addition to the INAI, the Federal Telecommunications Institute, the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy, the National System for Continuous Improvement of Education and the Federal Economic Competition, National Hydrocarbons and Energy Regulatory commissions. , whose powers and powers are transferred to various agencies of the federal Executive Branch.
It is part of the package of initiatives of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as plan Cwhich he presented on February 5 of this year. It was approved in the Chamber of Deputies on November 20 and in the Senate on the 28th of this same month. Given the speed with which it has been endorsed in local legislatures, it is expected that between Tuesday and Wednesday the declaration of constitutionality of this reform will be carried out by both chambers of the Congress of the Union and will be sent to the Official Gazette of the Federationto be published.
Endorsement of informal preventive detention in 16 legislatures
Meanwhile, the reform that modifies article 19 of the Constitution regarding informal preventive detention is also advancing very quickly. The Senate approved it last Wednesday the 27th around midnight and until yesterday 16 local legislatures had voted in favor of it.
Until last night, a single local congress was missing to meet the necessary majority around this modification that adds extortion, the production and distribution of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs, smuggling and any activity related to false tax receipts as serious crimes that merit prison. informal preventive.
Of the plan C of López Obrador, what is lagging behind is the modification to constitutional article 123, which indicates that increases in the minimum wage can never be below inflation. It was approved more than a month ago and as of October 10, 16 local legislatures had voted in favor of it. That is to say, there is only one missing to reach the required half plus one, but the process was stopped, apparently due to a budgetary impact issue.
