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What are the 20 constitutional reforms proposed by AMLO?

In his last year of government, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorproposed a package of 20 controversial reforms to the Constitution, with changes to salaries, pensions, the judiciary, autonomous bodies and the composition of Congress and the National Guard, among others.

The proposals were only announced by the president and published in the Official Gazette of Congress for details and full text.

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These are President López Obrador’s latest reforms and will define the direction of the legislative work of the 65th Legislature in the Congress of the Union of Mexico:

1) Recognize indigenous and African-American communities as subjects of public law.

2) Reaffirm the right to adult people to receive a universal state pension and people with disabilities.

3) Grant scholarships for students of all educational levels.

4) Comprehensive and free medical care for all Mexicans.

5) That workers and their families own their families.

6) Ban the animal abuse.

7) Prevent hydraulic fracturing any ‘hydraulic fracturing‘, banishment transgenic corn. Deny concessions to open pit mining.

8) The State is obliged to guarantee citizens’ right to access Internet.

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9) Make sure that areas with water shortage and allow only the domestic water use.

10) Prohibit trade in vaporizers It is chemical drugs like him fentanyl.

11) May the increase minimum wage never be less than annual general inflation.

12) Make sure the pensions for retired workers is 100% of your last salary.

13) Guarantee work for young people up to minimum wage for a year while they train.

14) Provide a secure and permanent salary for farmers.

15) Use the 18,000 kilometers of railways for the passenger transport.

16) Reduction of expenses with political parties, eliminate multi-member candidacies and reduction of legislators Congress: 300 deputies (from the current 500) and 64 senators (from the current 128).

17) What electoral counselors and magistrateslike this judges, magistrates It is ministers of Judicial power be a voter popular vote.

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18) The National guard returns to control of Armed forces.

19) Convert the republican austerity.

20) Delete dependencies It is autonomous bodies.

Source: Elcomercio

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