translated from Spanish: Viable, unconstitutionalaction action to avoid debt contracting: Alfredo Ramírez

Morelia, Michoacán.- The deputy of Morena Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla summoned the deputies who spoke out against authorizing the State Government to hire new debt, to add to promote an action of unconstitutionality, a legal remedy that has viability since various legal frameworks were transgressed in the authorization process, as reported in a statement.
Article 117 of the Constitution states that authorizing the procurement of public debt requires a vote in favour of two-thirds of Deputies; however, this postulate was not fulfilled since the adoption of the opinion in the united committees on Programming, Budget and Public Account, and Of The Treasury and Public Debt.
He added that in order to be able to bring the action of unconstitutionality before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, it was required to be signed by 14 deputies, and recalled that at the session in which the economic package was approved they voted against 7 legislators of Morena , in addition to the promotion of 8 of the NAps and 2 of the PT to cancel items relating to the contracting and refinancing of debt; “In short, we would have the votes necessary for our arguments to be heard in court,” he said.
He insisted that the hiring of 4.90 million pesos and the refinancing of bank loans up to 17 billion pesos was authorized against the provisions of the Mexican Constitution, and the Financial Discipline Act of states and municipalities , so the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit shall also be notified of irregularities in the procedure.
Alfredo Ramírez told the state administration to seek liquidity through debt contracting, rather than strengthening its collection policy, since according to the Michoacán Executive’s own records, “state collection is going backwards: this year it is thought to have own revenues of 3.88 billion pesos, less than the 3.919 million raised by the state administration in 2018.”

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