Mexico City /
The president Claudia Sheinbaum considered that it makes no sense for the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) to remain, pointing out that corruption problems have been recorded within the organization.
In The Morning of the People from the National Palace, The president recalled that the reform for the disappearance of autonomous organizations – among them the INAI – is on the horizon, so Transparency will be in the hands of the next Anti-Corruption and Good Government Secretariat.
“As an autonomous body, the INAI, and for all the cases you mention, it does not make any sense for it to remain, the issue here is how we are going to guarantee transparency, because the underlying issue is to guarantee the transparency of the Executive, of the Executives, of the legislatures, of the autonomous bodies of the Judiciary”.
“We have to guarantee transparency in the use of resources, and also in our functions, what we do every day, because it is an exercise in transparency. Transparency will remain in the Anti-Corruption and Good Government Secretariat and come on, we are working, a part comes in the organic law, but we are working to guarantee transparency.
Sheinbaum Pardo added that the proposal made by the INAI commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, to reduce their budget for next year came late, since the initiative for its disappearance is ready.
“The INAI made a proposal to the secretary to reduce their expenses, but now it is already too late, the proposal is already there in Congress, and let Mexicans know that there will be transparency.”
The President guaranteed that her government will seek—even without the National Transparency Institute—that the law on the matter is complied with, and cases of corruption are punished.
“An organization like this (INAI) is created, which is there to guarantee transparency that supposedly prevents corruption, and in the organization itself there are corruption problems.”
“So, now we are going to create another autonomous body that checks that there is no corruption and that there is transparency in the INAI? Well no, what we have to guarantee is that the law is complied with, that there is transparency and that if it is not complied with , since there are administrative sanctions or even in the case of corruption, criminal sanctions.
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