20 winning ideas by students presented to House
BY YVONNE REYES CAMPOS
The News
MEXICO CITY – Members of the Chamber of Deputies Young People’s Committee submitted 20 initiatives to the chamber’s floor on Wednesday. The measures were drafted by students from across the country and selected through a nationwide contest called Joven-es Por Mexico.
National Action Party (PAN) Deputy José Luis Oliveros Usabiaga, president of the Young People’s Committee, said that 250 bills were submitted to the contest, but only 20 finalists were selected.
According to Oliveros Usabiaga, the purpose of the contest is to create a civic consciousness among young people and help them understand the importance of politics by involving them directly in the political process. He said that many young people feel they are not represented by Mexico’s political system and that the country’s politicians don’t take their concerns into account.
“There were very interesting initiatives, the majority of them promoting the country’s development,” he said. “There were many about science and technology, there’s one that greatly interests me about education, science and technology.”
Oliveros Usabiaga said that the bill he was most interested in would create a national fund for the country’s high schools, which would promote infrastructure projects and provide low-income students with grants, which he said would help lower Mexico’s high school dropout rates by helping young people avoid having to choose between working and their education.
He went on to mention another proposal to include hate crimes against sexual minorities in the Federal Criminal Code. The contest was organized by federal institutions as well as prestigious Mexican universities.
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