translated from Spanish: Strengthening open parliament practices should be a priority for Congress: Alfredo Ramirez

Morelia; Michoacán.- The estrangement between social sectors and Legislative Power, in any society, generates mistrust and confrontation, warned Deputy Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, and therefore ensured that strengthening the practices of open parliament, with greater citizen participation in the drafting and reform of laws, should be a priority task for the State Congress in the second year of the LXXIV Legislature, so they reported in a statement.
The fracture of the social pact in Mexico is largely due to the “divorce” between public authorities and citizens, when they considered that the institutions stopped responding to the interests of the people, Morena’s legislator abounded and ruled that with the fourth transformation has come for public servants and popular representatives to re-engage with social sectors.
Alfredo Ramírez’s reform initiatives in terms of participatory and direct budgets, as well as to strengthen the powers of auxiliary authorities of the municipality, have been enriched by forums for citizen participation and sectoral meetings, in proposals have been sought from chiefs of tenure, law enforcement and municipal officials from most of the state territory.
The local MP stressed that the laws are a social coexistence agreement, so citizens cannot be legislated with their backs. In this regard, he underlined the importance of the LXXIV Legislature, in its second year of work, expanding open parliament practices; that is, to give greater participation to social sectors in the analysis and development of initiatives; “this linkage would allow us to bring forward laws and reforms that are less bureaucratic, and really serve people,” he said.
He added that the members of the LXXIV Legislature should decide and put to the vote the proposed agreement that he submitted on April 11, in which he proposes that the Congress, in coordination with the Electoral Institute of Michoacán (IEM), submit to consultation reform initiatives to Municipal Organic Laws, and Citizen Participation Mechanisms.
Alfredo Ramírez was confident that his fellow Legislatures will not reject the historic opportunity to convene citizen consultation, and give maximum openness to citizen participation in legislative work, “because social consensus is the main to legitimize the laws,” he concluded.

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