Adam Augusto Lopez Hernandez, Secretary of the Interior, affirmed that the Government, headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has no interest in rendering the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) inoperative; although he celebrated Minister Loretta Ortiz’s decision not to allow the plenary session with four commissioners.
The head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) considered that the minister made a thoughtful resolution and issued in accordance with the law, in addition to leaving aside “so many political and economic interests” that exist around the INAI, by not allowing the plenary session with four commissioners.
“We recognize the ruling of Minister Lorena Ortiz, the project that was approved, I understand yesterday in the Supreme Court of Justice, in the sense that the Constitution cannot be violated, alleging that it cannot operate if the number is not met. Commissioners are necessary to do so,” said the head of Segob, at the morning press conference.
In addition, he denied that it is convenient for the federal Executive that the Inai is inoperative and about the leaked audio, in which the secretary is heard affirming this in an alleged meeting with senators from Morena, the Labor Party and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico, he affirmed that “the content of a conversation was falsified, distorted private that I had with the senators”.
On the other hand, López Hernández pointed out that, as President López Obrador has commented, it is a task and obligation of the senators of the Republic to designate two vacancies in the Institute by qualified majority; although he pointed out that in one of the cases the call for this designation has not even been issued.
About the possibility that INAI commissioners – before the failure of the SCJN– go to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Adán Augusto López indicated that they are in full use of their right to do so; although he pointed out that the guarantor body is inoperative.
“It is enough to review the curricula of the commissioners. Because it has served as political booty. They have dedicated themselves there, as in other institutes, to dividing up the political parties by quotas, the appointments of the apparently autonomous bodies and that does not help either transparency or the consolidation of a democratic regime in the country,” said the secretary. of Governorate.
