Morena and her allies approved a reform that interprets the government propaganda concept to allow public officials to publicize the mandate revocation consultation, in a legislative process that took less than eight hours.
The initiative was presented at 9:45 am and was approved at 5:38 pm.
The president of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, presented the reform at 9:45 a.m. this Thursday, March 10, according to the stamp that can be seen by the Technical Secretariat of the Chamber.
The reform was signed by the morenistas Mario Rafael Llergo, Ignacio Mier and Gutiérrez Luna himself just a few hours before, on Wednesday, March 9.
The morenistas asked for it to be processed quickly, considering the matter of urgent and obvious resolution.
Morena’s majority and control of the Board of Directors allowed the reform to pass quickly to the plenary session.
The deputy of the Citizen Movement, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, presented the first ‘motion’ to suspend the debate, considering that it is “flagrantly violating due process”, since the reform must, he says, go through the competent commissions to hear an opinion. technique.
The initiative that is intended to be approved, without a doubt, also violates legal certainty since it is intended to change the legislation corresponding to an electoral process during the course of the same electoral process.
All protests were ignored. The matter reached the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies, where it was approved thanks to the legislative majority of Morena and his allies.
In general, it received 268 votes in favor, 213 once morest and zero abstentions (particularly something similar: 267 in favor and 210 once morest). Being a law, it required a simple majority, that is, half plus one of those present.
What does the reform say?
The purpose of the initiative is to interpret the scope of the concept of government propagandaof the principle of impartiality and the application of sanctions for purposes of the revocation procedure.
Defines government propaganda as the set of writings, publications, images, recordings and projections disseminated, under any form of social communication, charged to the public budget, labeled specifically for that purpose, by a public entity in order to spread the work , actions or achievements related to its purposes, or information of public interest referring to the well-being of the population.
Say what The expressions of public servants do not constitute government propagandanor the information of public interest that must be disseminated in any format by public servants.