Iris Velázquez / Reform Agency
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | 18:22
Mexico City.- Francisco Javier Acuña Llamas, commissioner of the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), said that it is false that they earn more than the federal executive, as stated this Wednesday morning.
“Today in the morning they supplied us again with those songs that we are useless, that we are the charges,” he said.
“That you earn 300,000 pesos. False,” was heard among the councilors present at the session on this day.
“N’ombre, please! Fortunately there, I don’t think he had foreseen it, the man who makes the sheets showed up and showed him, well, that we did not reach 157 thousand gross pesos, therefore, we earned 106 thousand Much less than what the President of the Republic earns, no, little less than what the President of the Republic formally earns,” Acuña Llamas replied.
What did AMLO say?
In the morning conference this Wednesday, the federal president reiterated in the INAI the salaries are higher than his.
He pointed out that this also happens in the Court and in the INE, for which reason he will promote another initiative so that “it is clearer” and that no official earns more than him.
“Imagine how much the one from Transparencia earns. Don’t you have what he earns around? About 300,000 pesos a month, in a country with so much poverty. A minister of the Court, 500,000 pesos a month. The one from the INE, why do you think that are they so angry? 300,000 pesos a month,” he said.
‘He didn’t say what he earns’
In this regard, Ramírez Acuña accused López Obrador of trying to clarify the information on his income and did not report his benefits that he considered onerous for the treasury.
Given this, he called on the president to take into account his benefits in the reform initiative that seeks constitutional Article 127, stating that they represent a high expense and, when added, his salary would not be comparable to that of any other official.
“He said one thing and it was great because he quoted article 127 and said: ‘the Constitution states that no other official can receive what the President of the Republic gets’, he did not say what he earns, eh? He said what he gets” he questioned.
“And if we take out the list and we put a pencil on all the complementary benefits, on the conditions with which you receive a house, clothing, sustenance, not only food, travel, pantry, clothing and everything that for some reason we cannot even happen, that they are part of that cauda of conditions, man! Well no, there would be no one who could actually ever obtain what the President of the Republic earns, “he said.
The commissioner also highlighted that the INAI carries out work that “many do not appreciate.”
He also opined that transparency is an uncomfortable subject for governments.
“Those who had to be legislators and built this legislative scaffolding, after they have had to govern, are regretting it and feel very little pleased when it is their turn in the dependencies, in which they now direct,” he said.
