The full Senatewith the votes in favor of Morena legislators and their allies, approved a reform that gives the president of the Republic the power to grant “amnesty directly” to anyone who has been sentenced for any crime, including drug traffickinghuman trafficking, femicides, rape, kidnapping or huachicol.
The opposition senators warned that the ruling that reforms article 9 of the Amnesty Law, which It was approved with 67 votes in favor, 32 against and was sent to the Chamber of Deputies for discussion.grants the Executive Branch “meta-constitutional powers,” as if it were “a king” or “a monarch.”
The coordinator of the PRD bench, Miguel Ángel Manceraemphasized that, in addition to the fact that clear rules are not established, The president is given a power that goes beyond those granted to him by the Constitution.
The panist Damian Zepeda He highlighted that a single person, the president, without any procedure, without going before a judge, sIn the assessment of the prosecution, you may forgive anyone: drug traffickers, rapists, kidnappers or criminals sentenced for trafficking or forced disappearance.
“This is perhaps one of the extreme reforms of the cult of the personality of a single person, of presidentialism, taken to the radical extreme, whatever they say, and whatever they justify, what they are doing is giving the president the king treatment.” of the Republic, of a monarch, of an absolute king, who has no counterweight, who is the law and justice,” he said.
The leader of the Morena bench, Ricardo Monreal rejected these accusations and said that the opposition should be concerned because the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation plans to “eliminate” article 19 of the Constitution related to informal preventive detention, which will free 69 thousand alleged criminals.
The senator of the Plural Group Germán Martínez Cázares suggested that Morena is looking for “money” in exchange for granting amnesty to criminals: “Does he need money? Claudia Sheinbaum or what? (…) Did they no longer have enough money from the Welfare Secretariat and now they want money from crime,” she said.
For Martínez Cázares, on behalf of the victims, the missing and the pain of the searching mothers, criminals should not be forgiven, under any circumstances.
