Deputies generally approved the Political Trial Law and Declaration of Provenance

This legislation seeks to establish the points for the trial of public officials who are still in their work (Photo: EFE / Mario Guzmán)

After several hours of discussion, during the early hours of this Thursday, the Chamber of Deputies generally approved the Law of Political Trial and Declaration of Provenance, which was pending before the Governance Commission of the previous legislature.

With a closed vote that ended with 273 in favor, 220 against and zero abstentions, the new deputies repealed the previous Federal Law on Responsibilities of Public Servants.

Now, the representatives of the LXV Legislature are in the discussion of the particularities of this amendment to the law that promotes the responsibilities of public servants, individuals linked to serious administrative misconduct or acts of corruption, and property of the State.

Said changes also stipulate the rules for the process of dismissal of government officials, including the President of the Republic himself, in the event that he commits any crime of corruption, treason, of an electoral nature, or any crime that merits unofficial preventive detention.

This “early morning” was criticized by opposition deputies, who assured that the members of the National Regeneration Movement party bench (Morena) and its allies will accept a legislation that they do not know, because this September 1 was when it entered into discussion. .

Margarita Zavala criticized the decision (Photo: Twitter @Mexlibre_)

Margarita Zavala was the one who led the messages from her Twitter account, where she mentioned that this decision had an “agglutination of power” in its background.

“What a shame, what an obsession. The party-government passes without any reflection a law that they do not know; it will end in a mediocre law that favors absolute discretion, the agglutination of power, confuses civil and criminal responsibility and is placed outside of due process, ”the new deputy wrote.

The representative of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Paloma Sánchez, wrote from her social networks that this mandate violates human rights, in addition to violating the Political Constitution itself.

“I voted against the Federal Law of Impeachment and Declaration of Provenance because it violates human rights, it is unconstitutional and a simulation. We are here to create laws that serve the people, we will never lend ourselves to legislate with the seal of submission, “he shared.

This law, which was considered of urgent and obvious resolution, seeks to “regulate the subjects of political responsibility in the public service, the causes and sanctions in the political trial, the competent bodies and the procedure in the political trial.” It is regulated by articles 108, 109, 110, 111 and 112 of the Political Constitution.

The law was approved in general with 273 votes in favor (Photo: Cuartoscuro)

Such procedure may only be initiated during the time in which the public servant performs his / her job, position or commission and within one year after the conclusion of his / her functions.

Likewise, it indicates that if the resolution issued in the political trial is convicting, the public official who has committed this irregularity will be punished with dismissal. Disqualification may also be imposed for the exercise of jobs, positions or commissions of any nature in the public service from 10 to 30 years.

Among the points of this law, it is indicated that any citizen, under his / her strictest responsibility, may formulate a written complaint against one of the public servants before the Chamber of Deputies.

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