También se realizó la reforma a diversos artículos de la Constitución, en materia de energía, la llamada Reforma Energética, el 11 de diciembre de 2013.
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Mexico City, August 22 (HOWEVER) .- The coordinators own MPs Legislature LXII ending on August 30 state that will be remembered as the one that gave Mexico the structural reforms needed for growth. It was also the historical debts left with the public, especially regarding transparency in the use of public resources.
Parliamentary affairs specialists consulted by HOWEVER agreed that the members of the Legislature were to conclude selective in the reforms approved, privileged political agreements over national welfare, financial unexplained gaps opened and generally left more disappointments than successes in the public perception.
"The federal deputies, senators like, other approved significant structural and constitutional reforms. By contrast, also have a clear public debt transparency, "said Maria del Carmen Nava, director of Legislative Vision.
You will also be impregnated into the pages of history, the refusal of the majority of outgoing deputies belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM) to accompany the investigation of paradigmatic cases like the disappearance of the 43 normalistas in Iguala, Guerrero, the "white house" of the wife of President Enrique Peña Nieto, and federal government contracts with Higa Group, among other government scandals.
Congress held a series of hearings of Secretaries of State to account "the state that holds the nation" but is mainly conducted within the framework of the gloss of the annual reports of government and not necessarily to explain current issues.
So outstanding was the appearance of the Secretary of Finance Luis Videgaray case, to explain the impact of tax reform or the appearance of Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, for the case of normal school.
"There were gaps in the control part of the exercise of executive power," said Guillermo Aviles, researcher in the area of Transparency and Accountability Fundar, Center for Analysis and Information.
"In that sense we should assess whether there was sufficient appearances, for example, the secretaries of state, because he had important junctures in which he had to call the finance minister, the Education, the Social Development, and to know what were the results of their work, "he added. While there was an increase in access to public information available to citizens, it is insufficient to satisfy the interest of the public to know relevant issues, such as the exercise of public spending, the use and allocation of resources budget or conflicts of interest of each legislator.
At the same time, the information available on the websites of Congress is insufficient to meet the demand for information from civil society organizations which in recent years has also increased its participation in surveillance and assessment of legislative work.
"The deputies and senators were selective in who wanted to use cartridges and those who wanted to burn," said Maria del Carmen Nava, of Legislative Vision. But beyond the need to provide useful and timely information, Congress has been negligent in explaining some scandals in which outgoing legislators were involved.
There is the case of Deputy Luis Alberto Villarreal, the National Action Party (PAN), who in his role as parliamentary coordinator was accused of implementing a network of charging fees to change budget allocations, called "Moche", operated from San Lazaro .
Although Villarreal has consistently denied the allegations, no internal or external authority of the House of Representatives has informed whether an investigation has been initiated against the federal deputy or the findings of the investigation.
In another memorable scene, in February 2013, the PAN deputy, Juan Pablo Adame, rose to his Twitter account (JuanPabloAdame) photograph of a Mercedes Benz parked in the Chamber of Deputies whose plate has been replaced by a "tray" with the words "Federal Legislature."
The luxury car was the property of the PRI Congressman Jose Rangel Espinosa, legislator for the State of Mexico and self-declared admirer of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
"I am a representative of the PRI in my district, of the PRI and supporters who voted for me, including the citizen Enrique Peña Nieto because he votes in the district that I represent in Atlacomulco," he said on occasion the PRI deputy, who was baptized by the media as the "Dipucharolas".
Mexico City, August 22 (HOWEVER) .- The coordinators own MPs Legislature LXII ending on August 30 state that will be remembered as the one that gave Mexico the structural reforms needed for growth. It was also the historical debts left with the public, especially regarding transparency in the use of public resources.
Parliamentary affairs specialists consulted by HOWEVER agreed that the members of the Legislature were to conclude selective in the reforms approved, privileged political agreements over national welfare, financial unexplained gaps opened and generally left more disappointments than successes in the public perception.
"The federal deputies, senators like, other approved significant structural and constitutional reforms. By contrast, also have a clear public debt transparency, "said Maria del Carmen Nava, director of Legislative Vision.
You will also be impregnated into the pages of history, the refusal of the majority of outgoing deputies belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM) to accompany the investigation of paradigmatic cases like the disappearance of the 43 normalistas in Iguala, Guerrero, the "white house" of the wife of President Enrique Peña Nieto, and federal government contracts with Higa Group, among other government scandals.
Congress held a series of hearings of Secretaries of State to account "the state that holds the nation" but is mainly conducted within the framework of the gloss of the annual reports of government and not necessarily to explain current issues.
So outstanding was the appearance of the Secretary of Finance Luis Videgaray case, to explain the impact of tax reform or the appearance of Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, for the case of normal school.
"There were gaps in the control part of the exercise of executive power," said Guillermo Aviles, researcher in the area of Transparency and Accountability Fundar, Center for Analysis and Information.
"In that sense we should assess whether there was sufficient appearances, for example, the secretaries of state, because he had important junctures in which he had to call the finance minister, the Education, the Social Development, and to know what were the results of their work, "he added. While there was an increase in access to public information available to citizens, it is insufficient to satisfy the interest of the public to know relevant issues, such as the exercise of public spending, the use and allocation of resources budget or conflicts of interest of each legislator.
At the same time, the information available on the websites of Congress is insufficient to meet the demand for information from civil society organizations which in recent years has also increased its participation in surveillance and assessment of legislative work.
"The deputies and senators were selective in who wanted to use cartridges and those who wanted to burn," said Maria del Carmen Nava, of Legislative Vision. But beyond the need to provide useful and timely information, Congress has been negligent in explaining some scandals in which outgoing legislators were involved.
There is the case of Deputy Luis Alberto Villarreal, the National Action Party (PAN), who in his role as parliamentary coordinator was accused of implementing a network of charging fees to change budget allocations, called "Moche", operated from San Lazaro .
Although Villarreal has consistently denied the allegations, no internal or external authority of the House of Representatives has informed whether an investigation has been initiated against the federal deputy or the findings of the investigation.
In another memorable scene, in February 2013, the PAN deputy, Juan Pablo Adame, rose to his Twitter account (JuanPabloAdame) photograph of a Mercedes Benz parked in the Chamber of Deputies whose plate has been replaced by a "tray" with the words "Federal Legislature."
The luxury car was the property of the PRI Congressman Jose Rangel Espinosa, legislator for the State of Mexico and self-declared admirer of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
"I am a representative of the PRI in my district, of the PRI and supporters who voted for me, including the citizen Enrique Peña Nieto because he votes in the district that I represent in Atlacomulco," he said on occasion the PRI deputy, who was baptized by the media as the "Dipucharolas".
Nationally it promoted as a legislative achievement approval of the constitutional reform on transparency to provide autonomy to the National Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) and its secondary legislation.
However, experts agreed that the Legislature was a duty on transparency.
Although the constitutional reform lawmakers expanded the catalog of obligors or information should cease to be reserved, deputies and senators remained important own padlocks in information opening of its legislative chambers.
In the specific case of the House of Representatives, lawmakers were to owe the signing of the Alliance for Open Parliament, which did sign the Senate last year.
The other debt of the House was its own Transparency and Anti-Corruption Commission, whose president was the PRI Deputy Areli Madrid Tovilla, which was far from meeting the expectations and solve many controversial issues.
As matters turned over history itself, it was sent to the legislative committee for its opinion 51 initiatives, of which 40 were dismissed seven remain pending analysis and only four were approved.
The same in the case of the points of agreement, turned over 49 proposals on transparency and fighting corruption, 46 were discarded and only three were approved.
"I think that in fact there was really actions of this committee chaired by Deputy Areli Madrid," said Maria del Carmen Nava.
REFORMS APPROVED
Backed by Mexico Pact and thanks to the agreements reached by the presidents of the main political parties, the legislature gave good accounts on the adoption of structural reforms.
Thus, Congress approved 29 constitutional and structural reforms, including: reforms in energy, tax, labor, education, telecommunications, competitiveness, electoral policy roots and anticorruption and transparency.
The Congress also approved 513 opinions law or decree, dictated in some of the three thousand 419 committee meetings.
"We are part of a legislature that will be recorded in history as one of the most productive in the living memory by passing relevant laws that gave an unprecedented shift in the dynamics of social, legal and political life of our country" said the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Julio Cesar Moreno PRD.
Only during the first two years of the Legislature, Members presented 872 thousand initiatives, more than 210 thousand propositions point agreement and issued 17 new laws, some of them with the active participation of civil society.
"The work of approving laws had good results both in content and processes, there were processes where the legislature opened to public participation, the case of the Senate I think it's very clear for example in the preparation of the Transparency Law and the National Anticorruption system, "explained Guillermo Avila, a researcher founded.
Another of the most important reforms adopted were the amendments to the Federal Labour Act in the workplace, backed the November 8, 2012.
Amendments to the Organic Law of Federal Public Administration, adopted on December 13, 2012, concerning the powers of Secretaries of State to create the super Ministry of the Interior and to disappear the secretariats of Public Safety and Public Service.
Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution were amended, in terms of competitiveness, December 12, 2012.
It was created the Law of Amparo, Regulatory of articles 103 and 107 of the Constitution on 12 February 2013.
Articles 61, 111, 112 and 114 of the Constitution, concerning immunity of public servants were amended to limit the jurisdiction of officials and legislators, the March 5, 2013.
Articles 6, 7, 27, 28, 73, 78 and 94 of the Constitution were amended, in telecommunications, the March 21, 2013.
The amendment to the Education Act, on the use and regulation of technologies in the national education system went through a number of approved on April 30, 2013 changes.
General Teaching Professional Service Act, the first of September 2013 was created.
It was reformed the Law of Fiscal Coordination and the General Government Accounting Act, on state debt, the October 29, 2013.
Tax reform that impacted the same Act Value Added Tax, the Law on Special Tax on Production and Services, of the Federal Law, the Law on Income Tax and repealed the Business Tax Law was passed Flat Tax and the Law on Cash Deposits, on October 31, 2013.
Reform various articles of the Constitution was also performed, on energy, called Energy Reform, the December 11, 2013.
