The PRI denies “agreement in the dark” to extend the departure of the military to 2028

Georgina Saldierna

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday September 4, 2022, p. 3

For 12 hours, the political forces in the Chamber of Deputies debated the constitutionality of the Army taking operational and administrative control of the National Guard (GN), and at dawn on Saturday, Morena and her allies prevailed to guarantee that the military continue in the streets in security tasks.

Also approved in particular, the package of reforms to the organic laws of the Public Administration and the Army and the Air Force; and of the laws of the National Guard and of Promotions and Rewards of the Army, was sent to the Chamber of Senators for its review and eventual approval.

In the particular debate, Morena reinforced that it is possible to combat organized crime from a civil authority, with the temporary support of the militia. And in turn, the leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, maintained that there is no agreement in the dark with Morena by proposing to extend to 2028 the permanence of soldiers in the GN.

Currently, the fifth transitory article of the 2019 constitutional reform provides that the return of soldiers and sailors to their barracks will occur in 2024, so the tricolor He proposed that this provision be extended four more years.

– Do you agree Brunette? –She asked him.

-It is not an issue with Morena, but to give the legal framework to the armed forces, for whom the PRI has total respect. How are we going to explain to people that they are no longer going to help us, if there is no body to do it? It would be irresponsible.

Throughout the discussion, Morena speakers reiterated that the reform does not militarize public security.

Amílcar Sandoval expressed from the rostrum: And let’s not get confused. The National Guard must abide by the national public security strategy, which is formulated by a civil entity, the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). It is obliged to comply with the parameters established by the National Law on the Use of Force and must carry out its functions strictly adhering to the first article of the Constitution..

In addition, he exhibited must coordinate with civil authorities in the Federation, in the states and in the municipalities, while the SSPC maintains its power to create the national public security policy and will propose the Executive’s criminal policy and coordinate the public security cabinet.

Faced with the repeated criticism of the PAN regarding the militarization of the country, Manuel Robles Gómez (Morena) indicated: They want to appeal and blackmail us with our principles and convictions, because they know that we do not want the Army in the streets. We wouldn’t want prisons either, but we have a Mexico with a legacy of impunity, of crime, and sooner or later you are going to pay for everything you did..

At 7:50 a.m. – the debate began at 8:00 p.m. on Friday – PAN member Humberto Aguilar Coronado was the last speaker. “The roadmap is clear. The indolent majority wins the vote at dawn, in the dark and with legislative chicanes. The Senate will also vote on it, it will be enacted and published in the Official Journal of the Federation. We will present the action of unconstitutionality. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation will decide and I want to see what face they show when it defines the unconstitutionality of this reform.”