5 points of the AMLO reform to disappear or merge 18 institutions

A little over a year after the end of AMLO’s six-year term, A reform is coming to disappear or merge 18 public institutions – that is, another scissors—, including INAPAM, the National Anti-Corruption System or the National System for the Protection of Girls and Adolescents.

This AMLO’s reform to disappear or merge 18 institutions aims to reduce expensesor at least that is what the government has explained, by ensuring that these represent double spending.

Y that joining different secretariats or disappearingWell… the problem is solved.

5 points of the AMLO reform to disappear 18 institutions

To the Chamber of Deputies

On April 18 of this 2023, AMLO sent to the Chamber of Deputies an initiative to reform (change), add or repeal different points in “matter of organic simplification”.

Said in other words, It is an initiative to change the Federal Public Administration (APF)in order to simplify it.

What does this AMLO reform propose?

“Make public resources more efficient, streamline administrative processes and take advantage of national assets properly.”

That’s what the initiative delivered to the Chamber of Deputies —and that you can check HERE in this link.

To achieve this kind of “saving” and administrative agility, AMLO’s reform proposes to disappear or merge more than 10 decentralized institutions because, again, the government considers that its functions are duplicated, are not essential, or can function under the shadow of another institution.

What are the institutions that would change with the AMLO reform?

1. The General Coordination of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comar), which would become an administrative unit of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob).
2. He Sipinna (National System for the Protection of Girls and Adolescents) What would happen to the DIF?
3. The National Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture.
4. The Food and Fisheries Information Service.
5. The Mining Development Trust — this would not be merged with any secretariat, rather it would disappear.
6. The General Directorate of Indigenous, Intercultural and Bilingual Education.
7. The General Directorate of Indigenous, Intercultural and Bilingual Education.
8. The National Institute of Indigenous Languages.
9. The National Institute of Water Technology —which would become an administrative unit of Conagua.
10. The National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change.
11. The National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy.
12. The IMJUVE (Mexican Youth Institute) —which would become an administrative unit of the Ministry of Labor.
13. The National Institute of Social Economy.
14. INAPAM (National Institute for the Elderly).
15. The National Council for the Development and Inclusion of People with Disabilities.
16. The National Anti-Corruption System (SNA) —this would be eliminated.
17. The General Directorate of Publications.
18. And the National Center for the Health of Children and Adolescents.

decentralized institutions

We stop here just to talk about what the hell is a decentralized body or a decentralized institution And what does it have to do with the Federal Public Administration?

In theory, the Federal Public Administration is the group of decentralized and parastatal organizations that help the president carry out their public administration tasks.

And within all this apparatus there are the decentralized bodies or decentralized institutions that, broadly speaking, depend on the budget of a secretariat in order to function.

Peeeeeero, even so they have autonomy and its own rules and tasks to operatealthough they depend on the budget of a secretariat.

The against

Although the AMLO government says that these organs duplicate their functions or represent an expense of morethe truth is that they were all created under the principle of specializing attention on the issues they address.

This is the case of the Sipinna, which was created to coordinate and put together public policies to guarantee the rights of girls and boys.

That is, it is a specialized attention and that implies work that is even more focused on a specific topicsuch as the rights of boys and girls.

Now, with AMLO’s reform to disappear or merge 18 institutions, Sipinna would go to the DIF and with this its operational autonomy would disappear —and also a body specialized in one of the issues that has been pending for various governments such as that of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

According to Redim (Network for Children’s Rights), its transfer would increase the inequality gap in the protection of boys and girlsin addition to representing a setback to the recognition of childhood as a subject of rights.

And that’s just about Sipinna. Over there we see the National Anti-Corruption System that would be about to disappearin a country that suffers precisely from corruption.

What do you think of this AMLO reform to disappear or merge more than 10 institutions? How do you see it?