Chamber of Deputies Sessions Hall | By: Writing
This Tuesday deputies of Brunette majority to the opposition to approve the opinion in the Government and Population Commission of the Chamber of Deputieswhich proposes to update the fines in the Law on Printing Crimes where it is proposed to increase the a fine of 4 thousand 149.6 pesos in cases of insults to the President of the Republic.
Likewise, the opinion seeks to homologate pesos to Units of Measurement and Update (UMA) the offenses stipulated in the Law on Printing Crimes which includes sanctions such as insults to the Federal Executive and whose cost would rise up to four times.
At the moment, the infractions are fixed in pesos and not in UMAs; currently, the fine goes from 100 to thousand pesos. In the event that it is updated, the maximum value of this sanction would rise to 400 percent; currently the value of UMA is fixed at 103.74 pesos during 2023.
The proposal was presented by the legislator Bennelly Jocabeth Hernandez Ruedas of Brunettewho seeks a modification to the article 33 of the aforementioned law, with the purpose that the crime of insults to the president go from 5 to 40 UMAsin addition to allowing people to pass up to a year and a half in prison.
In this sense, the sanctions would not only be raised in the case of Republic Presidentbut also to those who insult the following officials: office secretaries, attorney general of the Republic, directors of federal departments, governors, the head of government of Mexico City.
As part of the arguments, the legislator Jocabeth Hernandez affirmed that the previous sanctions “no longer work because they give rise to committing the crimes of the article 3 that refer to public order”, that is, the expressions that are made in a way “malicious” to insult, “ridicule or destroy the fundamental institutions of the country.”
Some of the means in which the president or the country’s institutions could be insulted include: “speeches, shouts, songs, threats, manuscripts, or printing, drawing, lithography, photography, cinematography, engraving or in any other way”, in accordance with what is stated in the Article 3 of the Law on Printing Offenses.
Considering the data of the Legislative Information System (SIL), the initiative that seeks to increase the cost of sanctions for insulting the president, was pending from the March 15, 2022when it was published in the Parliamentary Gazette and taken to committees.
For now, it still remains for the initiative to go through the Plenary session of the Chamber of Deputiesfor such modifications to take effect.
Meanwhile, the fines for insult the president they go from the six months arrest to 18 months in prison; Apart from a sanction that goes from hundred to thousand pesos.
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