The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) reactivated this Wednesday the sessions of the National Institute of Transparency and Access to Information (Inai), an autonomous body paralyzed because the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador refuses to name his commissioners.
The Second Chamber of the Supreme Court granted Inai a precautionary measure so that it can meet with the four commissioners it currently has instead of the five minimum established by law.
The INAI could not resolve any citizen demand since April 1 that implied ordering a public body to make information transparent or denounce the violation of personal data because the Senate, controlled by the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), has not appointed the missing commissioners.
“Once the ruling has been notified and after more than 140 days without being able to meet, the Inai plenary will be empowered to hold ordinary sessions, in which it will present, discuss, and resolve the more than 8,000 accumulated review appeals,” the autonomous body stated in a statement.
The controversy grew because López Obrador justified not proposing the INAI commissioners to the Senate with the argument that “it is useless” for being an autonomous body inherited from the “neoliberal period”.
The INAI, created in 2014, has demanded the Government of López Obrador to reveal high-profile information, such as the Mayan Train contracts or the assets seized from crime by the Institute to Return the Stolen to the People (Indep).
He has also asked to publish the file on the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa that the president said he received from the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, and documents from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) on the corruption case of the Brazilian Odebrecht .
Inai filed a constitutional controversy before the Supreme Court last March in which it denounced the omission of the Senate for not appointing three commissioners, as required by the Constitution.
“The ruling shows the importance of the balance of power in the countryas well as the validity of a rule of law, in which respect for the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and human rights prevails,” the autonomous body concluded.
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