Goodbye to INAI? Morena’s senator proposes that it be absorbed by the Ministry of Public Administration

alejandro armenta mireThe senator from Murray has introduced an initiative with which Will try to eliminate the National Institute of TransparencyAccess to information and protection of personal data (INAI).

In justification of the project, Armenta Mier affirms that INAI and Ministry of Public Works (SFP) They share objectives and activities, therefore, the Transparency Institute may be absorbed by a federal agency.

Regarding the SFP, Armenta explains that its mission is “targeted Ethics, integrity, efficiency, professionalism and transparency of public work according to the legitimacy and rules established in the National Development Plan 2019-2024, which aims to combat corruption, as well as Application of transparency and economy To do a national uplift”.

What does Alejandro Armenta’s initiative on INAI include?

General Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information, Federal Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information, INAI Guidelines on Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data at the initiative of Senator Alejandro Armenta; INAI Interpretation Criteria; Also agreement to issue general filing and transparency provisions for public administration.

In addition, the initiative proposes to reform the articles of the general law for the protection of personal data in the possession of bound subjects and to revise the articles of the general file law.

A passage will also be added to the Biological Law of the Federal Public Administration.

In the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration and in the General Law on the Protection of Personal Data in the Possession of Obligated Subjects, it shall be established that The Ministry of Public Administration is in charge of responding to requests for public information.

What happens in INAI?

On Wednesday, the Commissioners of the INAI once again appealed to the Senate of the Republic, before the end of the current session this week, to reveal the names of the three missing Commissioners of the Institute.

Presenting Commissioner Blanca Lilia Ibarra also said that INAI’s functions cannot be absorbed by other precedents, as no agency has the powers to guarantee the right to access information and the protection of personal data.

INAI filed a constitutional dispute and it was admitted for processing Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).

On 24 April, Minister Loretta Ortiz denied the suspension with which the organization asked the Supreme Court to allow the four currently active members to meet.

Since the first of last April, INAI could not be reached Due to the lack of quorum necessary to hold these meetings, the Senate has not made the corresponding appointments.

This comes after in March this year, when the Senate appointed two INAI commissioners, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador vetoed the appointments. This is under the argument that the election of the new commissioners was a distributive agreement between the parties.

The Interior Secretary, Adán Augusto López, denied that he intended to deactivate the INAI.