López Obrador seeks to eliminate high-level bureaucracy

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As part of the implementation of austerity measures and rational spending, the President-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, goes through the reduction of high-level bureaucracy in the federal government, which has increased in the administrations of Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto.

In the initiative to change the Federal Public Administration Act, presented by the coordinator of Morena in the House of Representatives, Mario DelgadoIt is specified that the next government, which will take office on 1 December, will compact and reduce the middle and senior management positions created from 2006 to date.

In this document, without specifying either figures or amounts, it is specified that the elected President will decrease the attached Directorates-General, created over the last 12 years without any justification, through initiatives in favor of Legislative authority or executive agreements.

"With regard to the austerity and rationality measures that the next government will implement immediately, as part of future initiatives or through executive agreements, it will proceed to the determination of the reduction or reduction of middle or higher command posts, including attached branches, which were created in December 2006, without sufficient justification of their need ", describes the initiative presented in the Low room

Security Secretary. In this initiative to change the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration It is created to create the Secretariat for Public Security and Citizen Protection, which will lead Alfonso Durazo on 1 st December.

In the document Mario Delgado presented in the forums, he also plans the creation of the welfare secretariat and modifies various aspects of the different dependencies.

In the text, which was handed to the commissions on governance and on population and public security, the bases are also laid to repeal or cancel the education reform and stipulate that the Ministry of Labor will have to promote democracy union, by the free vote of its members. unionized, without interfering with their internal lives.

Mario Delgado explained that the security strategy of Enrique Peña Nieto's administration had failed and that it was not a "fire against fire" because the country was going to be pacified. announced a new strategy that will restore peace and tranquility in society.

In addition to this, it is proposed that the SSecretary for Security and Protection of Citizens All powers entrusted to the Ministry of the Interior have been transferred to this area ", it is proposed to entrust those related to national security and civil protection of the population in case of natural disaster, always with the precious support of our armed forces.

"This secretariat is responsible for the command of the Federal Police and is authorized to carry out research activities, to chair the National Council of Public Security, to supervise and control the National Intelligence Center, and to launch the National Prevention Program. of violence and delinquency, "said Mario Delgado.

Control of social programs. In this context, the Department of Finance should transfer all material, financial and computer resources to integrate, compare, refine and improve all federal social records.

"It is proposed to transfer to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit the material, financial and information resources currently allocated to the Ministry of Public Administration for the operation and administration of the Global System Tool. Governmental Program Information (SIIPP-G) ", explains the document.

It also establishes that the general coordinators, the super-delegates, will be in an office of the Presidency of the Republic, "delegations of development programs are created to control the implementation of the programs of the federal government".

It is expected the creation of a single major office at the Ministry of Finance. "The main offices of all entities will disappear to be replaced by an administrative unit whose owner will be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury," said the legislator.