If the two vacant commissioners plus the April vacancy are not appointed, the INAI could become inoperative, as the senators have recognized, since by law the Plenary must meet with a minimum of five members.
The order to the Jucopo
The Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) of the Senate must designate the two vacancies of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), determined last week by the District Court 17 in Administrative Matters.
The foregoing, after the aforementioned court granted the INAI Advisory Council a provisional suspension and ordered the Upper House to proceed with the appointment and, where appropriate, vote on the two new commissioners immediately.
Since March 2002, the Senate has not made the aforementioned appointments, so the autonomous body operates with five of its seven members.
The day before, the commissioners met with the president of the Jucopo and coordinator of the Morena senators, Ricardo Monreal, to warn of the risk of paralysis in the autonomous body.
And it is that on March 31, the management of its president, Commissioner Francisco Acuña, will conclude, for which a third vacancy will be added, which would put its operation at risk, by remaining with only four of its members.
As of April 2, 2022, the Opinion of the Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Citizen Participation, and Justice Commissions was issued and turned over to the Political Coordination Board of the Senate, with the list of the 13 candidates and the candidates with the conditions of eligibility to hold the position of commissioner of the INAI.
For this reason, the Advisory Council filed an amparo lawsuit and Judge Celina Angélica Quintero Rico, head of Court 17 of the Federal District in Administrative Matters, granted the provisional suspension, according to file 1714/2022.
