translated from Spanish: SHCP should report resources for National Guard

MEXICO City.-The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) should look for the document sent to him by the Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB) requesting 20 billion pesos for the creation of the National Guard, resolved the plenary of the INAI. In exposing the case to his colleagues, Commissioner Josefina Román explained that in her first response the Treasury Secretary held that the required information was non-existent, because at the time the requirement was made, there was still no Internal regulations of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). This interpretation, said the Commissioner, was restrictive, since it is known that the SSPC was created on November 30, 2018 by means of an amendment to the Organic Law of the Federal public administration and it was the Segob that fulfilled the formality of requesting the Budget. ” Consequently, we believe that the unit should make an interpretation that enhances the right of access to the information of the particular, in accordance with the principle pro homine and thus to give to the appellant the documentary expression from which evidence the Allocation of budget to the Ministry of the Interior and, consequently, with respect to that which was labeled for the integration of the National Guard, “he said. On the proposal of Román, the plenary of the Institute determined to revoke the response of the Secretary of the Treasury and instruct him to carry out a search of what was requested in the General direction of programming and Budget “A”, which is competent in terms of the follow-up in Programming and budget for public and national security.

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