Martha Martinez / Reform Agency
Friday, April 14, 2023 | 20:23
The coordinator of Morena in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal, said that although he respects the position of the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López, with respect to INAI, the Upper House has to do what is necessary so that the plenary session of the Institute is integrated before it end of the current regular session.
In an interview in Veracruz, where he went at the invitation of a group of lawyers and the Business Coordinating Council, he stated that one of the possibilities for the Institute to come out of inoperability is that the Senate can appoint at least one of the two commissioners pending designation before next April 30.
“It is an opinion that I respect of the Secretary of the Interior, but we have to do everything possible for it to work and for it to be integrated before the last of April,” he said regarding the statements of Adán Augusto López, who considered it “practically impossible.” that in the remainder of the current ordinary period, the Senate can reach an agreement to appoint the INAI commissioners.
Monreal explained that there are three alternatives for the Institute. The first is that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation resolve the constitutional controversy promoted by the commissioners of the Institute and determine whether or not to grant them the suspension.
The second hypothesis, he said, is that the Senate exhausts the process before the last day of April and can appoint at least one of the two commissioners yet to be appointed, so that they form a quorum.
Finally, he said that the third possibility is that a special period be opened immediately after the current regular session ends.
“I am convinced that it must work. I have said it publicly, we cannot leave it paralyzed and we cannot leave this autonomous body so essential for the country’s public life on pause or in recess,” he said.
It will promote the National Penal Code
Monreal announced that he will promote a National Criminal Code to prevent local Congresses, such as the one in Veracruz, from being tempted to include pernicious figures in the legislation, such as outrages against authority.
“I do believe that we can create a Single Penal Code so that the local Congress is not tempted to legislate on this type of pernicious legal figures and that act as abusive instruments against citizens,” he said.
Monreal said that this type of figures will also fight them in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation if necessary, since they are instruments that the citizens of Veracruz and the country do not deserve.
He warned that the state is trying to leave the same legal figure and only change its name to that of attacks against authority.
“It is a new criminal type that, at the moment of repealing the outrage against the authority, is replaced by a similar criminal legal concept,” he said.
Although he said that he went to the state in peace, the Morenista coordinator considered, without mentioning Cuitláhuac García, that no official should make fun of autonomous organizations such as the National Human Rights Commission.
The above in reference to recommendations that the agency has issued against the Governor and the Prosecutor, which have been rejected.
“No official or public servant should make fun of the recommendations. They should be accepted, because they come from autonomous constitutional bodies and despising this type of complaints and recommendations does not place them in a role of democrats, I say this with all responsibility,” he said.
The Morenista senator reported that close to 100 people have been released after being accused, mainly of outrages against authority, but warned that there are more unjustly detained.
