Marko Cortés, national leader of the PAN, announced that if the National Guard protocol passes the Senate, his party and the rest of the opposition will file an unconstitutionality lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the nation.
“We will say no to the militarization of Mexico as many times as necessary, and even more so when we see that civilian police have been dismantled at the federal, state and local levels, leading us to a militarization that represents a resounding failure in history security strategy,” said the head of the bakery.
As often as necessary we will say NO to the militarization of Mexico, NO to the dismantling of the civilian police, demonstrating the resounding failure of the Moreno government’s security strategy.https://t.co/xUts8KH3zj
— National Action (@AccionNacional) September 4, 2022
I assure you that allowing Morena and her allies to impose military, administrative and operational control on the National Guard is unconstitutional.
The PAN leader asserted that the goal of this action was “to prevent Mexico from further militarizing itself and becoming a dictatorship.”
National Guard and Sedena
On August 3rd, after more than 12 hours of discussion, the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies approved the reform of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in an urgent procedure, so that the national guard no longer report to the Department of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) and otherwise become part of the Department of National Defense (Sedena).
The approval of the presidential initiative in general and in particular, which took place in the early hours of this Saturday, was a split vote. On request of National Action Party in particular, voting was carried out in two shifts.
The first included reservations on the Federal Administration Act, the National Guard Act and the Army and Air Force Act and the Transitional Articles, which were left by 264 votes in favour, 212 against and 1 abstention. .
In general, the banks that supported the reform were those of Morena and her allies PT and PVEMthe opposition parties of the alliance Va por México (PRI, PAN and PRD) and Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) voted against it.
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