Mexico City.– The members of the Plenary Session of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) will meet next week with the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, reported Commissioner Norma Julieta del Río.
Since the last six-year term, the commissioners of the INAI had unsuccessfully sought to approach the federal Executive, given the criticism made by the now former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador about its usefulness and the reform initiative that eliminates the Institute to transfer its functions to other agencies.
“Next week, it is practically a fact that the Secretary of the Interior will receive us,” said del Río during his participation in the “10th Stop of the Archival Caravan 2024”, organized by the Transparency Institute of Mexico City . This morning, during the conference at the National Palace, President Claudia Sheinbaum was asked if she would be willing to dialogue with the INAI commissioners, and she mentioned that there is always a willingness to dialogue, but that the issue could be discussed at the Ministry of the Interior.
“If they want to talk, they can do it with the Secretary of the Interior, it is not closed,” he said.
In February 2019, at the beginning of the last administration, the INAI commissioners sent a letter to López Obrador, who had already expressed criticism against the transparency body, with the intention of holding a meeting, however, there was never a response to that request. On February 5, as part of a package of constitutional reform initiatives, López Obrador proposed the disappearance of the INAI and transferring its powers to the Secretariat of Public Service and the Superior Audit of the Federation. That initiative is in Congress, waiting to be discussed. Del Río said that in the meeting with the head of the Interior they will highlight the work that the National Transparency System has carried out in terms of archives, since this is one of Sheinbaum’s priority issues. “I think it will be a moment to tell teacher Rosa Icela, I told her a while ago, these are issues that we have to discuss on the table and one of those issues will be this, one of the 100 objectives of the President that is being directed with us,” he said.
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