The block of federal deputies and senators of the 4T will have control of the presidency and numerical superiority in the strategic commissions of the Congress of the Unionand key governing bodies such as the Political Coordination Boards and the Boards of Directors of both chambers.
Following the discussion of the initiative to reform the Judiciary —that before a suspension ordered yesterday by a judge of Morelos was scheduled for next week—the distribution of the legislative committees In San Lázaro and the Senate will be another battle front that will be fought between Morena-PT-PVEM and the opposition.
The supermajority of the official block It will allow you to capture a large number of commissions and thereby take control of the federal budget, spending oversight, social programs and progress of State projects, among other key issues.
In San Lázaro, for example, the commissions of Oversight by the Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF)Transparency and Fight against corruptionchaired in the last LXV Legislature by the PRI and the PAN, respectively, will be essential to ensure that Morena does not misuse its supermajority, considered Federico Döring, a PAN deputy.
In an interview with El Sol de México, he explained that historically and for political agreement These commissions have been chaired by opposition parties, although after the Green Party from being the fourth to the third political force in the Chamber of Deputies, and displacing the PRI, the legislator warned that they could fall into the hands of the allied party of Brunette.
“We have to fight for strategic commissions that, due to parliamentary history, cannot be headed by a party in government or a party allied to the government. Historically, since 1994, there has to be an opposition legislator at the head of the committee. Supervisory Commissioncannot be from Morena, nor an ally of Brunette“That is nonsense,” he stressed.
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In the case of the Transparency and Anti-Corruption CommissionDöring Casar added that it will become one of the only instances to guarantee transparency, in the event of the disappearance of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) with the administrative simplification reform of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which is also another priority of Brunette.
The Transparency Commission has a fundamental task: to appoint the heads of the Internal Control Bodies (OIC) of autonomous bodies such as the National Electoral Institute (INE), Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) and Inai, which monitor spending and investigate and punish bad practices.
For the Senate The story is not very different. In an interview with this newspaper, Senator Miguel Ángel Mancera explained that “according to the regulations, an analysis of the percentage of representation will be made and based on that analysis, the commissions and the integration of boards of directors in commissions will be distributed. I predict that Brunette could have the presidency in at least three quarters of the committees of the Senate”. With information from Atzayacatl Cabrera “The other prediction is that (Morena) will have a majority in all, absolutely all, of the committees.”
According to Mancera Thornsa, there are commissions that are key such as Constitutional Points, First Legislative Studies, Second Legislative Studies, National Defense, Navy or Finance.
This will allow Brunette dominate commissions where topics such as “the” are discussed income lawtax reforms and appointments, promotions and medals of Sedena and Marinaentry and exit of troops, authorizations for departures from the Presidency of the Republic. It will also have a majority in Foreign Affairs where he will be able to approve all appointments of ambassadors and consuls.”
Other appointments whose ratification requires a qualified majority of the plenary session Senate They are the electoral magistrates, both of the Superior Chamber, Regional Chambers and Specialized Chambers, as well as in local electoral courts.
According to the Constitution, the Organic Law of the General Congress of the United Mexican States and the regulations of each chamber, the legislative committees They must be constituted during the first month of the new legislature, that is, during September.
Deputy Arturo Ávila, spokesman for the Morena bench, He acknowledged that the cherry-colored party will increase the number of committees it chairs, since the 364 seats it occupies in the legislature that starts on September 1 allow it to have greater control.
“Now we will have between 24 and 25 commissions plus those that correspond to the Green Ecologist Party and to the labor party, that is to say, there will be a large number of committees in which we can participate,” said the legislator.
He rejected that it is a matter of greed, as the opposition accuses, that the majority group control the majority of the commissions, since he said that every seat they have was won at the polls.
“Now it turns out that they no longer like the rules of the game that they set and with which they basically lost. No, there is no profiteering, I have repeated on several occasions that we must be very respectful of the democracy and democracy is what it is, well, it is the will of the people and if the people gave us their confidence in 85 percent of the electoral districts that were voted without counting the plurinominals, then the people expect that Brunette support the plan and the government project that we offered you,” he said.
Avila said that Brunette He is interested in presiding over the Constitutional Affairs Committee to consolidate the president’s new social programs Claudia Sheinbaum; the Treasury to ensure that programs and projects can be financed; and the Infrastructure Commission to get passenger trains running on the promised routes.
In addition to the legislative committees, Brunette will have control of the Jucopo of San Lázaro for the next three years; and of the Jucopo of the Senate, the following six. The boards of directors of the two chambers will also be under the baton of the official party; in the Camera high during the 66th and 67th legislatures; while Chamber of Deputies will be alternated.
In the Jucopo, Brunette It will also have a weighted majority to define the agreements that are established; while with the dominance of the boards of directors, the ruling party will have control of the debates in the Congress, Senator Miguel Ángel Mancera explained. The legal and administrative areas of each chamber could also be under the supervision of the guindas, he pointed out.
Other cases of control that will be in vogue are the Belisario Domínguez and Gilberto Bosques institutes – both from the Senate – whose importance lies in the fact that they are in charge of strategic research for decision-making and analysis, research and international protocol, respectively.
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Mancera Espinosa He considered that “in both chambers we have returned to times when the PRI also had this type of majority; it is not something that is unprecedented (…) today the history of steamroller-type majorities is repeated, of majorities that will not allow the opposition to be anything but merely symbolic.”
“They cannot stop constitutional reforms, they cannot modify agreements in commissions, they will not be able to force political dialogue for appointments (…) there is absolute dominance by Morena and its allies,” he concluded.