BY YVONNE REYES CAMPOS
The News
Chamber of Deputies President Ricardo Anaya Cortés announced on Wednesday that the electoral-political reform and the transparency reform are constitutional, after a majority of state congresses approved the measures.
The reforms have now been sent to President Enrique Peña Nieto for promulgation.
The electoral-political reform disbands the Federal Election Institute (IFE) and creates the National Election Institute. It allows for reelection of legislators and mayors, establishes autonomy for the Attorney General’s Office — which was previously a dependency of the executive branch — and will advance the system of voluntary government coalitions.
Citizens Movement (MC) Deputy Ricardo Mejía said that he and other MC deputies voted against the measure because it was only passed as a bargaining chip for energy reform. Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) Senator Manuel Camacho said that the process went too quickly and left many things to be adjusted in the secondary laws.
The new transparency reform gives the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information (IFAI) greater autonomy, allowing for greater analysis of political party and government actions.
PRD Senator Zoé Robledo said that transparency has always been a leftist cause and a requirement for democracy. He said that the lack of transparency is the door to corruption, and called on the senate to strengthen anti-corruption measures when drafting the secondary laws.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Senator Raúl Aarón Pozos Lanz said that the IFAI will be “the framework of references for establishing criteria for fighting opacity.”
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