Mexico City /
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that this week he will publish an agreement with which the administration and command of the National Guard will pass to the Secretary of National Defense.
At a morning press conference at the National Palace, The president justified this decision by arguing that he has to use all possible legal margins to consolidate the strategy and solve the problem of insecurity and thus deliver good accounts to the people since they are facing an opposition bloc “that does not help at all.”
Even so, he assured that an initiative will be sent to Congress so that the change is formalized in the Constitution and not only administratively. Therefore, he announced that next September 16 the military parade will be dedicated predominantly to public security and the stars will be the elements of the National Guard.
At the same time, the president commented that the Secretariat of Citizen Security will be restructured so that it becomes the secretariat of security and justice so that the agency helps speed up the release of people who are unfairly imprisoned.
“I am going to include this special function in the public security secretariat, because I have been issuing pardons, amnesties, giving instructions for freedom for some time, and we are not moving forward, and of course it is not just a matter for the executive, but in a time of transformation, you cannot act with bureaucratic tortuguism and even less so when it comes to justice,” he pointed out.
The president was asked what will be the legal basis for carrying out the change of the National Guard and he replied that he will analyze it, however, he clarified that within the scope of his attributions is to modify the government’s internal regulations, either by decree or by amendment to the public administration law.
“These changes are needed and I no longer want time to pass because the truth is that we lack things and I do not want anything to be left to us and the sooner it is done the better so that the time we have left, the decisions that are still being made end up consolidating the end of the government”
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