Review of the austerity of López Obrador: 83 bureaucrats sacked daily

During the first three months of the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the austerity measures provoked the daily dismissal of 83 bureaucrats. From December to February 8,331 workers stopped working in federal agencies.

One of the campaign promises of the current president was reduce the expenditure of the institutions to be able to invest money in social programs and put an end to corruption. The reduction of places was the responsibility of the administrative staff of at least 18 secretariats.

The unit that suffered the most personnel cuts was the Secretary of Health. During the first quarter of the current presidential administration, approximately 6 thousand people.

"In January, February and March, an adjustment, a first reduction of 3,000 workers, and then another similar 3,000 staff members was introduced and that he was hired to perform trusted tasks, for example in a hospital sub-department, "said Marco Antonio García Ayala, leader of the National Union of Workers of the Ministry of Health in interview with the newspaper Millennium.

This information does not match the one provided by the institution through transparency. In the information provided to the Mexican media, they indicated that they had eliminated only six licensed places in the last three months.

However, on March 11 of this year, the Ministry of Health issued a statement stating that A minimum of 30% of staff had been reduced.

The second institution with the largest number of layoffs was the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. According to the information they provided, they have 736 places less busy than in October of last year.

Then, the Public Service Secretariat follows with 271 jobs less, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources with 265 layoffsand agriculture and rural development with 236. The Ministry of Public Education has reported a reduction of 250 places, Secretariat of Energy 203of the culture 161; Secretariat of Territorial and Urban Development 93Foreign relations 74 and secretariat of tourism 59.

Addictions who reported that they have not modified their work forms they were the secretariat of national defense and the navy. The only addiction that has yielded increase in the number of workers it was the Ministry of Economy, with the 60 most busy positions.

The other institutions did not provide any information in this regard.

The problem of redundancies has been solved visible from the first days of the government. In January of this year, members of the workers' unions of the Government of Mexico and the Heroic fire department They organized a demonstration in front of the National Palace to ask the president to put an end to the layoffs at the federal and local levels.