AMLO seeks to eliminate “all” autonomous organizations in his reform package

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorpointed out this Thursday that in the reform package that he will present on February 5, there will be the proposal to disappear “all” the autonomous organizations that exist in the country.

“We are also reviewing with a magnifying glass what these organizations do, to the extent that I am going to propose in the package of reform initiatives, that all these organizations that were created to protect individuals disappear.“said the president during his morning press conference.

The Mexican president thus responded to the statements of the president of the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Coffee), Andrea Marvanon the exhaustive review that said body will carry out on the sale of 13 plants of the Spanish Iberdrola to the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) last June.

Among the organizations he has criticized are the Coffeethe Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), the National Institute of Transparency and Access to Information (Inai), and the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE).

López Obrador affirmed that all autonomous regulators were created in what he calls the neoliberal period “to affect the public interest”.

And he maintained that during that stage the goods were delivered “from town” and from the nation to individuals.

“There was a privatization that only came as a precedent in the history carried out by (the dictator) Porfirio Díaz, he handed over the oil, the mines, the land, the water, the railways, the banks to foreigners.”, he noted.

He indicated that his package of initiatives seeks to modify the reforms made in the last 36 years to favor only individuals and asserted that this is precisely why the “supposedly” autonomous organizations were created.

“They needed to protect themselves and that is why they formed all these organizations, supposedly autonomous, where the private, the particular, has more weight than the public, that is why this organization’s attitude is (Cofece)”, he concluded.

Last Tuesday, López Obrador revealed that the package of constitutional reforms that he will present on February 5 amounts to 10 initiatives, among which will include those of the Judiciary, the National Guard and republican austerity.

In addition, in previous events he has expressed that he will also seek an electricity initiative to counteract the reform that opened the energy sector to private investment during the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).

Since last Thursday, the president announced the last package of constitutional initiatives before the June 2 elections and the end of his term next October.

The Mexican ruler expressed his hope that his alliance of parties will recover the two-thirds majority in Congress that is required to modify the Magna Carta and that he lost in the 2021 midterm elections.