The legislators who make up the Budget and Public Account Committee of the Chamber of Deputies began this September 29 the discussion to disappear “unstructed” trusts so that these funds are reintegrated into the Federation and reassigned to health issues, as well as to finance social programs of the government.
At a pre-session press conference, the Coordinator of the Morena Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of Deputies, Mario Delgado, acknowledged that even though there was initially a proposal to extinguish 55 trusts, the initiative was modified to disappear a total of 109 that have a balance of 68 billion pesos.
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Delgado argued that not all money is going back to the public finances, as some of the resources are compromised because they are “specific supports for certain populations.”
“The disappearance of trusts does not mean the disappearance of some legal obligations of the government or the disappearance of some supports, there will simply be an administrative reorganization… some beneficiaries… they’re not even going to find out there was this change.”
Right now the most important thing is the health of Mexicans.
The extinction of some trusts does not mean the disappearance of the supports, but an administrative reorganization in which each weight is being reviewed. pic.twitter.com/FjPjN5ZCTz
— Mario Delgado (@mario_delgado) September 29, 2020
The DEPUTY cited the case of the Emergency Care Fund (Fonden) whose disappearance “does not mean that the government is going to take away responsibility for caring for the population in the event of a natural disaster.”
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The disappearance of the trusts was proposed even though lawmakers convened an Open Parliament, with representatives of the 26 research centres and citizens, who defended the permanence of the trusts on the grounds that they are nourished by self-generated resources or donations from third parties and do not receive federal transfers.
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PRD MP Antonio Ortega Martínez, a member of the committee, criticized during the start of the session that an open parliament had been convened when its recommendations were not being taken into account.
“We are deceiving citizenship. that it is useful to convene an Open Parliament if we do not listen, we do not attend, we do not change, it only has a political cost to legislators,” he said.
The Parliamentary Group of Citizen Movement also spoke out against the termination of trusts, as they considered that with this initiative the president “compromises the development and security of the country”.
“Under the rhetoric of combating corruption and without documenting such crimes so far, Morena’s proposing MPs intend to amend 14 laws and repeal one, so that the resources corresponding to the trusts are delivered directly from the federal units,” said Parliamentary Group Coordinator Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla.
The meeting of the Committee on Budget and Public Account of the Chamber of Deputies follows here:
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