Claudia Salazar and Mayolo López / Reforma Agency
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 | 18:02
Mexico City.- Morena’s bench became even more radicalized, after rejecting the proposal of the coordinator Ricardo Monreal, to have a “State vision” to carry out the appointments for three INAI vacancies.
Monreal presented a legal argument to the faction that proposed ignoring the Executive’s position against the body that guarantees transparency and considering the legal effects of leaving it inoperative.
However, the faction remained in the position of not going ahead with the appointments.
“I wrote this document that establishes a reasoned position on my considerations regarding the INAI.
“Hopefully we can read it and, even knowing the position of the federal Executive, I would like us to reconsider the need for its integration,” he said about the text entitled “The disqualification of INAI and its Impact on the Mexican State.”
In his letter, he warned that the omission of the Senate means a serious violation of the human rights of access to information and protection of personal data, in addition to the fact that international treaties on the matter are also being breached.
Monreal argues that despite the fact that the INAI cannot meet with the plenary session of commissioners due to lack of quorum, requests for information from public entities are not suspended nor is their obligation to respond, they will only be pending to resolve the appeals for review, which also generates legal uncertainty.
The coordinator of Morena added in his letter that it is possible that the Supreme Court grants the request that the INAI be able to meet without the requirement of the 5 commissioners, which would solve the lack of the Senate, but with the repercussion that Mexico it would be pointed out at the international level that a State organ was intentionally disqualified.
“Hence, it is considered more convenient to address this problem with a vision of the State, through the designation of the people who must fill the three commissioner vacancies in the plenary session of INAI, without wasting the unique opportunity that the proposals that the proposals would enjoy of a majority consensus,” he said in the text.
He added that it would be first to enable INAI, above “minority interests” so that said appointments fall on certain people.
He asked that his proposal be read and that decisions be made after that.
However, the text was ignored by the majority of the group.
Given the actions of the Opposition to demand compliance with the INAI appointments and the presentation of the first legal appeals, the response of the Morena senators was to further radicalize their position.
After the seizure of the platform by the PAN and the suspension of the session, Senator César Cravioto indicated that the agreement of the bench was to make a “counteroffer.”
He said that the Senate approves all the pending appointments that the Senate accumulates or none.
Although it is not provided for in the Constitution to resolve appointments through the insaculation, as it is provided for electoral advisers, the Morena faction said that they could go to the tombola if there are no agreements.
On behalf of the faction, he added that there will be no other position, that 76 pending appointments have to be resolved.
“In the internal meeting of the group we agreed that we were going to reconsider the Opposition and we were going to tell them: removing the INAI commissioners is as important as all the pending appointments in the Senate.”
He said that it seems that the country collapses if there are no INAI commissioners, when there are many more that have not been prosecuted.
He recalled that there are no members of the Technical Education Council, of the National Commission for the Continuous Improvement of Education; a magistrate of the Regional Chamber of the Federal Court of Administrative Justice; magistrates of regional chambers of the Electoral Tribunal; IPAB members; magistrates of the agrarian courts; citizen councilors of the FGR; and a counselor from the Federal Judiciary, among others.
