After the discussions between benches in the Senate and AMLO’s call to disappear the INAI, This institute has already been out of session for a month and has accumulated 3,000 pending review appeals.
On May 1, the Commissioner President of INAI Blanca Lilia Ibarra wrote a tweet to remind us that, in the midst of the discussions in the Senate, the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data was frozen for a month.
I mean, a month without meeting due to lack of quorum or, in other words, for not having enough commissioners to carry out their sessions —while the government and the benches of Morena and allies are betting on the wear and tear on the INAI.
INAI celebrates a month without sessions and with 3 thousand pending
It doesn’t hurt to tell you that he INAI is waiting for the Senate to appoint 3 councilors so that it can meet.
There are 7 members of the INAI Plenary. For now, 4 are active and 3 are missing to be named, peeeero the anger is just there.
Since AMLO challenged this appointment processthings around the INAI have become uncertain.
And while in the Senate the opposition benches discussed with Morena and allies to name at least one commissioner or a commissioner —so that the INAI Plenary could return to its work—, the Institute has accumulated 3 thousand revision resources.
Of these, more than 800 are ready to be voted on... but nothing happens and, according to Blanca Lilia Ibarra, this ruins the exercise of the rights to information and transparency.
The INAI Plenary
If you are wondering what the INAI Plenary iswhat are its functions or why it is important, here we leave you a couple of useful information.
The Plenary is made up of 7 commissioners —who have to be appointed by the Senate— and their functions range from resolving controversies or complaints filed against equis government institution for not delivering information, issuing the rules of this institute or propose sanctions against those who do not comply with their transparency resolutions.
But the Plenary has not been able to meet, 3,000 appeals for review have been brought together and it cannot take out the 800 that it already has ready, because the Senate does not get its act together —there, Morena intends to disappear INAI, although for that he would have to present a reform.
And if the bet on his disappearance continues, the government would be scoring an own goal because it would eliminate the iInstitution specialized in guaranteeing the transparency of governments and their information —If you don’t believe us, here we leave you a note with 10 cases of corruption that came to light with information from the INAI.
