President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that he will move forward with the administrative reform and will seek to compact the autonomous bodies in the secretariats “one by one”.
The president has stated on several occasions that the autonomous bodies have to be eliminated, according to him, because they duplicate functions, their cost is high, and that they are “simulation” instruments created by previous governments.
“We are going to continue carrying out the administrative reform, which was another burden that was inherited so that the mafia could act freely, maiceaban, bribed everyone, deputies, senators, public servants.”
“The government should not be self-absorbed, the budget is not for those of us working in the government, the budget is for the people. What happened before? The whole budget stayed,” he said.
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“So we go little by little because they are battles, it is one by one, if it is constitutional reform it is very difficult (…) because they are two thirds and there the conservative bloc does not let anything happen.”
According to Article 135, for a constitutional reform to advance, it must be approved by two-thirds of the individuals present in the two legislative chambers, of deputies and senators. Then, at least 16 local congresses are required to also give their consent.
However, the possible disappearance of autonomous bodies such as the INAI or the INE requires constitutional reforms and not only a decision by the Executive. And for a constitutional reform to transcend it needs, in the first instance, the approval by a qualified majority (two thirds) of the deputies in Congress.
In simpler numbers: the vote of at least 334 deputies is required for a draft reform of the constitution to be approved and passed to the Senate of the Republic. It is a sum of legislators that not even Morena with all its allies reach.
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Among the organizations whose continuity the president has put under a veil of doubt are the National Institute of Access to Information (INAI), the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), the Federal Commission of Economic Competition, the National Hydrocarbons Commission, the National Electoral Institute (INE), among others.
López Obrador has called these organizations “monsters” or “ogres” that do not favor people so it is necessary to reform them.
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