The Senate leaves the INAI plenary session incomplete: Commissioner Julieta del Río

Mexico City. The Senate closed its session on April 30, “being ignored once again” and leaving the plenary session of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) incomplete, by not naming the two missing members, criticized Commissioner Julieta del Río Venegas.

He indicated that despite this, the Inai “is strong, the System is strong, we are going to fight simply with truths, adhering to the norm and we are going to continue opening the information that we want to hide.”

At the inauguration of the National Congress for Transparency, in Aguascalientes, Adrián Alcalá Méndez, president of the institute, warned that, 13 years after the Alliance for Open Government and 10 years after the constitutional reform on transparency, the political will to achieve institutional opening has not been enough, since it is observed that the institutions of the Mexican State are reducing their capacities in terms of access to information and increasingly limiting the mechanisms of citizen participation.

For this reason, “at Inai, we are working firmly on a new commitment to Open Government, which we have called Let’s Open Mexico towards an Open State; strategy that is aimed at promoting transparency and participation in public institutions, but with a novel vision that allows us to advance in the consolidation of a true open State in Mexico; that all institutions, more than 8 thousand in the country, open themselves to permanent dialogue with society to consolidate democracy,” he noted.

In turn, the governor of Aguascalientes, María Teresa Jiménez Esquivel, assured that, on the issue of transparency, it is necessary to act with determination, in a coordinated manner and without concessions, hence the importance of strengthening institutions and consolidating, from our trench, a democracy in which counterweights exist and are encouraged.

“Today, above any political sign, belief and ideology, we are called to defend legality, the rule of law, access to justice, republican balance, federalist collaboration and participatory democracy, as well as all the instruments that “guarantee respect for the freedoms and rights of each person,” he said.

In this framework, Inai, the Government of the state of Aguascalientes and the Transparency Institute of the State of Aguascalientes (ITEA) signed the Open Government Declaration.