The head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), Luisa María Alcalde, guaranteed that the objective of promoting the amnesty law is breaking “the pact of silence”, because People who have been sentenced could provide more information for the cases that are most relevant for the State, such as the disappearance of the 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa.
These statements come just after the reform was approved in the Senate of the Republic that would give the president the power to grant “amnesties directly” to people who have been sentenced for any crime.
“Yesterday in the Senate two important reforms were approved, the first has to do with a reform to the Amnesty Law, this is important because it establishes the possibility of granting amnesty to people who provide useful elements from relevant cases, in this case “Sense, we are talking about cases like Ayotzinapa,” said the official during the morning of Thursday, April 18.
Luis María Alcalde explained that The Government considers that there is a pact of silence and this has prevented progress in the judicial process to punish those responsible for the disappearance of the young people of Ayotzinapa. That is to say, the amnesty law could give access to new information.
“We are making a major effort so that those who know or know where he could be can provide information and the idea is to have a legal framework that allows us to move forward in breaking that pact of silence and being able to find the young people,” he added.
He recognized that in The amnesty law must “assess the impacts on security issues” and also stop the acts of corruption that exist in the Power of attorney.
“We believe in the presumption of innocence (…) and that we do not collapse a system that already takes a long time,” he said.
The official added that the Government “has denounced the injustice” that implies that different legal matters take many years to be resolved.
What does the opposition say about the amnesty law?
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.”
In the initiative reform that seeks to grant power to the president of the Republic of giving ‘amnesty directly’ all crimes are consideredincluding those that are related to drug trafficking, human trafficking, femicides, rape, kidnapping or huachicol.
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.
For his part, the PAN member 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.
While 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.
