AZMEX POLICY 23-1-19

AZMEX POLICY 23 JAN 2019

Morena will ask the Senate for an extraordinary session for the National Guard

By: El Universal | 1/22/2019 5:06 PM

https://www.lacronica.com/Nacional/2019/01/22/1403559-Morena-pedira-al-Senado-periodo-extraordinario-por-Guardia-Nacional.html

Without an opinion on the constitutional creation of the National Guard, the majority of Morena in the Senate, will request this Wednesday the Permanent Commission to convene the Senate plenary session to extraordinary period, this week, to discuss and vote on the reform that activates said figure to attack the problem of public insecurity.

Similarly, the Constitutional Points Commission resolved that the Senate call a meeting on National Guard work to the Secretaries of Defense, Cresencio Sandoval González; Marina, Rafael Ojeda Durán, and Public Safety, Alfonso Durazo Montaño, and they hope that they coordinate their agendas to attend the Upper House.

The president of the Constitutional Points Commission, Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar (Morena), told the members of that legislative body: "We have speed for the discussion, our feeling is that it be discussed as soon as possible, because the President does not have legal tools or powers to act at this time. "

The opposition rejected the claim to pass the opinion without public hearings and warned that it has reservations that require a careful process of analysis of the minutes that were received from the Chamber of Deputies.

"We will not be obsequious," said the coordinator of Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), Dante Delgado Rannauro. And he explained that his position is to comply, "not give up" the fulfillment of the powers of the Senate.

Claudia Ruiz Massieu (PRI) said: "We want the President to have instruments to carry out the public security strategy, but we can not provide permanent solutions that violate the democratic state," and that puts at risk various international conventions that opposes the project of National Guard.

Damián Zepeda Vidales (PAN) said that his party is against the militarization of the country permanently; what it will support will be an extraordinary framework.

Samuel Garcia (MC), expressed that it is his responsibility not to extend a blank check with a constitutional reform that activates a security corps with military line.

Dante Delgado said that before an open parliament mechanism is held, around the National Guard's opinion, an internal analysis should be carried out in the Senate on this subject.

"Do you think we are going to vote on a constitutional reform to create a law that regulates the use of force without being able to give observations? Do you imagine that the Senate will abdicate its powers, because of the haste" that Morena has to follow the signals of the Executive? "expressed Delgado Rannauro, and called the majority:" Do not rush. "

Cristóbal Arias Solís (Morena) affirmed that it is urgent to resolve in the Senate the opinion of the National Guard, and launched himself against the opposition that asks to debate the issue: "There must be self-criticism and be co-responsible for their failure", when they were the government.

Urge the National Guard, "because there is an atmosphere of fear derived from criminal violence", and expressed his goal that this Wednesday in the Permanent Commission will approve the National Guard.

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