ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR, president of Mexico
“(Autonomous organizations) are useless. They are factious, onerous and anti-popular. It is proposed to eliminate all onerous, supposedly autonomous agencies and agencies. They are autonomous from the people, not from the oligarchy. For many years, a golden bureaucracy was created and the creation of new organizations to which many budget resources had to be allocated.
FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
“The reform sent by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to eliminate autonomous bodies represents a setback to the detriment of users and audiences. It implies returning to a model that proved to have serious limitations to achieve, among other objectives, the entry of more competitors, greater legal certainty and ensuring a level playing field so that more Mexicans would have more telecommunications services at a lower price and with higher quality. The results and evolution of telecommunications and broadcasting in the last decade show that constitutional autonomy has provided this regulatory body with the necessary institutional strength so that decisions are made exclusively with technical criteria and for the benefit of the population.”
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, Morena candidate for the Presidency
“We want to say very clearly that we support the proposals presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the Congress of the Union as constitutional reforms. From our perspective, they expand and strengthen the social and human rights represented in the Magna Carta. They strengthen democracy, freedoms, [plantean] an honest and austere government, national sovereignty and, of course, also the protection of animals and the protection of the environment.”
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TRANSPARENCY, ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
“Any initiative that threatens or goes against the progressivity of human rights puts the rule of law and democracy at risk. We reiterate our openness to plural and democratic debate, as well as the interest in actively participating in spaces where it is possible to make our importance clear. The autonomous functions of the Inai cannot be absorbed by any power or public entity.”
NATIONAL ACTION PARTY
“This attack (against autonomous organs) is megalomaniacal madness. Morena knows that she does not have the votes necessary to carry out this assault on democracy and the institutional life that sustains this nation.”
ANA LILIA MORENO, researcher from Mexico Evalúa
“It is very difficult to disintegrate these organizations in practice, in addition to the fact that it is illegal to do so, since it would be getting into a serious problem, since they are constitutionally autonomous bodies, it would also require a qualified majority in Congress, which, currently , they do not have”.
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JOSÉ ABUGABER, president of Concamin
“It must be considered that autonomous bodies serve to ensure that decisions are made with technical criteria and there is effective accountability. Far from disappearing them, we have to strengthen them, because that helps transparency and the democratic life of the country.”