AMLO prepares his last 4 reforms, including militarizing the National Guard

The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwill present his last four constitutional reforms to his last legislature in Congress, which begins this Friday, among which he highlights trying again to militarize the National Guard.

The proposals also include lowering the age requirement to receive a pension for the elderly, revealed this Thursday the Secretary of the Interior, Luisa Maria Mayor.

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The government official anticipated legislators from the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) who will seek to make support for people with disabilities and the program mandatory by law sowing lifeone of López Obrador’s flagship projects to support peasants.

During the plenary meeting of the legislators of the ruling Brunettein the former headquarters of the Senate in the Mexico CityMayor pointed out that these reforms do not seek anything new, but to consolidate the project of the so-called “fourth transformation”.

“They are reforms that we will present, but already under a closing logic. We believe that this is not the time to promote new ones, but reforms that can consolidate what has been done so farhe declared.

The first change named by the Secretary of the Interior was to reduce the age required for an older adult to access a universal pension from 68 to 65 years.

The call welfare pension It consists of an economic benefit of 4,800 pesos (about 282 dollars) every two months, an amount that, López Obrador announced, will increase by 25% for the next year.

In addition, the Mayor expressed that the universality of government support for people with disabilities will be sought, as well as changes to establish the “Sembrando vida” program as part of the financial obligations of the Mexican Government in the Constitution.

Besides, the Mexican official also pointed out that it was necessary to guarantee the operation of the National Guard by commands of the Mexican Armyincorporated in the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena).

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“Operational control (of the National Guard) must be given to sedena so that it allows us to have a strengthened Guard towards the future”, he pointed out.

The mayor recalled that a legal reform had already been approved to cede control of the National Guard to the Mexican Army until 2028.

But it was stopped by a resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nationwhich declared it unconstitutional and resolved that it made mistakes in the process to change the civilian operational command.

Source: Elcomercio

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