The parliamentary groups of Morena, PAN, PRI, MC, PVEM, PT, PES and PRD in the Chamber of Senators spent during the LXIV Legislature, which ended on August 31, more than 1,400 million pesos of which little is known in what were disbursed.
Contrary to logic, subsidies to parliamentary groups did not decrease last year during the months that senators did not go to the Senate to work in person and did so remotely in order to take extreme precautions and avoid contagion of the Covid-19.
From April to November of last year, when most of the ordinary sessions of the plenary chamber were held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic – a lapse that covers the second, third and fourth quarters – the eight parliamentary groups represented in the upper house delivered 408 million 198,300 pesos.
Julen Rementería del Puerto, coordinator of the senatorial bench of the National Action Party (PAN), denied to El Economista that there is opacity on the amount assigned to his parliamentary fraction.
But in response to the request for information with folio 0130000008421, dated February 2, registered in the National Transparency Platform, for which the interested person asked in writing “to know the expenditure made by the PAN bench of January 2020 until the present request is received ”and“ the contracts for each purchase that you have made ”will be sent to you, the PAN parliamentary fraction denied the corresponding information, which it reserved for one year as of February 17, 2021.
The Senate Transparency Committee confirmed the classification of reserved information of the supporting documents on the use of resources from item 39903, as proposed by the PAN because an audit procedure by the Internal Comptroller of the Upper House.
To the question “How does the PAN parliamentary group spend the resources?” not even from this Legislature, from previous ones, where it is established on what and how (it is spent), and we have to comply with it, as we have been doing ”.
The Organic Law of Congress and the Senate Regulations establish, he added, “that funding must be given (to parliamentary groups) and the verification must be fully complied with, which we do. We do our part, in the group there is an assignment and there is a check ”.
He explained that resources are allocated proportionally, depending on how many senators each parliamentary group has.
Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa, coordinator of the PRD parliamentary group, argued that in previous legislatures the parliamentary groups spent more resources from the treasury; today, he recalled, senators are required to comply with the Federal Republican Austerity Law.
He explained that each of the three PRD senators, himself included, “spends what corresponds to the different administrations. From what is required in Tabasco, in Michoacán, and here they constantly ask us for steps.
Based on the General Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information, senators must be held accountable.
“They are subjects obliged to be transparent and allow access to their information and protect the personal data in their power: any authority, entity, body and body of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers, autonomous bodies, political parties, trusts and funds public, as well as any natural person, legal entity or union that receives and exercises public resources or performs acts of authority in the federal, federal and municipal spheres ”, orders the law referred to in its article 23.
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