translated from Spanish: Morena to vote against review of Armed Forces use in security

The Morena party, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and with a majority in the Legislative, said that it will vote against the decision of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Rojas, to bring a constitutional dispute against the agreement of the President for the use of the Armed Forces in public security tasks.
MeP Rojas, of the NAP fraction, said the controversy is due to the presidential agreement leaving the Army and Navy without a legal framework on their actions in public security duties. Therefore, after dialogues with civil society organizations and constitutionalists, he decided to bring the dispute, as part of the powers of the Legislature.
However, on Sunday, the Morena party reported that “that decision does not represent the opinion of the parliamentary majority in the Chamber of Deputies.”
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Therefore, “the Chamber of Deputies shall vote against the decision taken by the current president of the Chamber of Deputies in relation to the aforementioned constitutional controversy. Every decision of the president is subject to the discretion of the Assembly, says our legal framework,” the party said in a statement.
Deputy Rojas said that the intention of the dispute is not “to challenge the power of the President of the Republic to dispose of the armed forces in public security tasks, but to ensure that it effectively meets the criteria established by the Constitution, and thereby ensure that its actions to provide security to Mexicans are effective and soundly anchored in legality,” she said in a statement.
But Morena replied that the proceeding of the President of the Republic is supported by the articles Fifth and Sixth Transients of the Decree of Constitutional Reform establishing the National Guard, a law that was approved by a majority and by the 32 local congresses of the country.
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According to the ruling party, the power granted to the Executive by such transitional articles is exceptional, therefore the participation of the Army and Navy in support of public security efforts will “also be extraordinary”. And the Executive’s decree excludes the armed forces from performing most of the actions assigned in the law to the National Guard.
They described as “desprolicy” that the dispute “questions the power of the Executive” and “it is serious that, in that document, Deputy Laura Rojas accused the President of the Republic of carrying out a ‘fraud of the Constitution that relaxes the executive’s intention to ignore the Reforming Power and return to the scheme raised at the beginning of the initiative presented by Morena'”.
In Morena’s statement, they take up an argument by The Red Member in which he stated that the Agreement is not aimed at the gradual demilitarization of security work, “but accepts the general use of the armed forces in work that, in principle, does not correspond to it”.
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For the Brunette fraction, “such statements reveal a political intentionality in an allegedly legal action; they give it a partisan tint, which is contrary to the institutionality with which the President of the Chamber of Deputies must be conducted.”
“The statements made by Meps Laura Rojas are also false, as this government has been the first to take firm steps to regularize the presence of the armed forces in public security support functions, as well as to provide for their exceptional and transient nature,” the party said.
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Original source in Spanish