translated from Spanish: The outstanding issues to discussed the Congress

this Friday, February 1 the second session of the first year of the LXIV exercise period kicked legislature of the Congress of the Union.

according to the consulting firm Integralia, this period is notable for a “driven agenda” the priority reforms to the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

the issues for this session, some of them with an incomplete parliamentary process are:

1.       The National Guard.

2.       Constitutional reform relating to revocation of mandate and popular consultation.

3.       Elimination of constitutional immunity.

4.       Republican austerity law.

5.       Labor reform.

6.        Educational reform.

7.       Decriminalisation of recreational and medicinal use of marijuana.

8.       Social Security for same-sex couples.

9.       Amendments to the law on salaries of public servants.

10.   Extension of the catalogue of crimes of the constitutional article 19.

11.   Federal Act to prevent and punish offences in the field of hydrocarbons.

12.   Reforms to ghost companies combat.

13.   Reforms to the law of Petroleos Mexicanos.
The National Guard is one of the most prominent in the public agenda issues. The House passed the reform for its creation, however, the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador requested to reinstate two transitory articles (deleted from the minutes that is located in the Senate).
The first empowers the armed forces for public security duties insofar as it constitutes the National Guard. While the following
establishes that the Guard will be attached to the Sedena for an extraordinary period of five years. Now the Senate must submit these changes to the minutes and return to the originating House.
Possibly be approved also three reforms that could harden the justice system in Mexico, as it seeks to extend from 6 to 19 the number of offenses that require automatic detention for those likely responsible.
But in addition to increase the possibility of arrest in “flagrante delicto”, without a warrant, by removing the condition that existed that the person necessarily was “surprised” at the time of the crime and pursued by an authority.
During the first session (September-December 2018), 408 initiatives were presented in the Senate.
The Congress of the Union approved, among others:
1. Law on remuneration of public servants
2. Organic of the Federal Public Administration Act
3. Law of the National Institute of indigenous peoples
4. Organic of the Prosecutor General of the Republic Act and Declaration of its autonomy
5. Extinction of domain
6. Law of incomes and expenses budget of the Federation
7. In addition to various appointments or ratifications of diplomatic personnel, magistrates, Secretaries of State, Chief of the SAT and a Minister of the Supreme Court, naval and military grades.
“During the first session, a dynamic to the interior of the Congress dominated by the lack of coordination at the horizontal level was observed: there was a shared agenda between the beds of Brown in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies, so that each ()” together with its partners) proposed various reforms independently and without the consensus of the related parliamentary groups, much less with the perspective of affected actors (for example, bank fees, disposition of reserves of the Bank of Mexico) “, He stressed Integralia.
While the opposition has the votes to prevent constitutional reforms, it is unlikely that this block is held as an effective counterweight. Is expected that bread and MC are the real opposition; While the PRI and PRD remain as split-hinge or negotiation.
According to Integralia, could be a “breaking” of the PES with Morena, mainly by antagonistic positions on two issues relevant to the Mexican left: the legal interruption of pregnancy and the recreational use of cannabis decriminalization.
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