Claudia Salazar
Reform Agency
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 2:02 p.m.
Mexico City.- Parliamentary coordinators of Morena, PVEM, PT and PRD of the Chamber of Deputies asked the Senate to correct the constitutional reform to disqualify potential candidates with a history of violence or who are food debtors.
Through a statement, the legislators request that the disqualification is not retroactive to acts committed before the reform and that the sanction is not forever.
The reform has already been endorsed in Senate committees and is one of the pending issues to be discussed these days, before the end of the session, on April 30.
Former MC deputy Martha Tagle denounced that the members of the Jucopo deputies intend to go over the will of the majority of the Plenary and, especially, of all the deputies who promoted the reform called 3de3 against violence.
He warned that they do not have any power to ask for changes to a draft decree, since it is outside the legislative process.
“This constitutional reform so that there is no #NoAggressorInPower must be approved in its entirety (both chambers and 17 local congresses) no later than May, so that it takes effect in the 2024 elections. It must not be modified to get it out on time,” Tagle claimed .
“The deputies know very well that they cannot send modifications to the minutes that have already been approved in @Mx_Diputados and in @senadomexicano they should not accept any of these modifications, since it was also approved in commissions in their terms.”
The reform proposes changes to articles 38 and 102 for the suspension of rights to hold office, employment or public service commission to those who are legally designated as food debtors and who have a final judgment on acts of violence against more women.
In a letter addressed to the president of the Senate, Alejandro Armenta, the deputies request three changes to the minutes.
One of them, adding a third transitory article in which it is established that the cases of deprivation of political rights to be postulated for a popularly elected position, “will start from the time the norm enters into force, so there will be no application retroactive for the illegal act, fact or omission committed before the publication of the decree, as mandated by article 14, first paragraph of the Constitution”.
In fact, this would prevent the reform from being applied immediately and 2024 men with said records could be candidates, due to the fact that they committed the offense before the reform.
In the letter they also request that article 38 specify the proportionality between the conduct that is sanctioned and the punishment.
They also request to “clearly establish that the cancellation of rights “will not be for life”, because the Constitution establishes that there should be no “excessive” punishments.
The lawyer and feminist Patricia Olamendi pointed out that the coordinators of San Lázaro cannot be trusted.
“What confidence can the women of their parties have in them? They are lying males,” he claimed.
The document is signed by the coordinator of Morena, Ignacio Mier, and those of the PVEM, Carlos Alberto Puente; that of the PT, Alberto Anaya; and from the PRD, Luis Cházaro.
