Among the reforms, one stands out to return the Federal Electricity Commission to its character as a strategic public company; another will reduce the number of deputies from 500 to 300 and halve the current number of senators (128); counselors and magistrates of the electoral organizations will be elected by popular vote; yet another one states that judges, magistrates and ministers of the Judicial Branch will be elected directly by the people instead of being proposed by the Executive Branch and appointed by deputies and senators.
The reforms recognize indigenous peoples and communities and Afro-Mexicans as subjects of public law, reaffirm the right to pension for older adults from the age of 65 onwards and increase the amount year after year, and grant scholarships to students from poor families in all levels of schooling.
Free comprehensive medical care to all Mexicans is also guaranteed; workers and their families can own their homes; mistreatment of animals is prohibited; transgenic corn is outlawed in the national territory; and the extraction of hydrocarbons through fracking is forbidden.
The trade of vaping devices and chemical drugs such as fentanyl are prohibited; the increase in the minimum wage to be less than annual inflation will not be allowed; reversing pension reforms because they unfairly affect Social Security workers, as they prevent them from retiring with 100 percent of their salary.
López Obrador announced that he will rewrite with greater clarity and forcefulness the principle that “no public servant of the three powers can earn more than what the President of the Republic legally receives.”
No privileges or extravagances will be permitted in any of the branches of the federal government. Finally, onerous and elitist, supposedly autonomous agencies and agencies will be eliminated.
The initiatives were delivered this Monday by the Ministry of the Interior to the Chamber of Deputies so that they can be analyzed, debated and approved for the benefit of the people in the remainder of this legislature or the next.
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