Representatives agree to the Public Works Law; Comprnet will disappear

With 324 votes in favor of, 119 against and abstaining from one, the House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday in general, especially the reforms on the Public Works Law, which has a major goal in the Comprnet system and the establishment of the digital platform for public contracts to unify the contract and increase transparency, in addition to greater control of public resources.

The initiative presented by the President of the Republic, Claudia Xinbum Bardo, is based on Article 134 of the political constitution, which proves that the economic resources provided by the union, federal entities, municipalities, and regional drawing are to be “somewhat” composed of that, where the matter is considered. “It is necessary, it is necessary to update the general employment system.

Therefore, Article 77 of the Public Works Law and related services is amended, in order to increase the monetary punishment for contractors who violate the rulings.

Also, it liquidates the first section of Article 78 of the same legislation, which aims to comply with the providers and quotes of the obligations derived from the failure or notification of the award, in which the signing of the contracts is.

The initiative should also guarantee that “no public or specific servant will benefit from the economic resources that must be used for the benefit of the population, while determining that the federal government has the tools and tools needed to achieve the proposed goals in public contracts.”

Representative reactions

For more than two hours of discussion, parliamentary groups presented their opinions in favor of these reforms, being members of the seat, Pri, who kept their position against, until they ascended to the exhibition with banners with messages like “MERENA is corruption”, in the first stage, the opinion was generally adopted with 355 votes in favor of 98 against.

“Today we are facing a worrying reform of Mexico, away from facing corruption and hiding institutional corruption.

For his part, Aybil Aarndo Ramos, from Pri, said that you cannot agree to the reform that instead of closing roads to corruption and ending with paving, and instead of the transparency of contracting procedures, it creates a system as a means so that the government and its officials use public resources.

“There will be customers and friends who affect the roaming,” he added.

Margareta Garcia, of the Labor Party, highlighted the importance of reforms, because it put the brakes and locks on the employment of public works carried out by the government; “They must end Togo with corruption and help the President of the Republic in this case, because we must all participate. Employment operations are transparent with a new digital platform.”

MC, Gildardo Pérez Gabino said that although they support opinion in general, “but in particular, the first article has lakes and contradictions on the works and services derived from priority programs and strategic projects that implement the armed force; violates the principle of law and what is shown in Article 29 of the organic law of the federal government administration.”

While MERNA, Graciela Domínguez Nava, pointed out that the opinion is a specific step “towards a honest, modern and effective public administration; public employment is completely numbered and with the digital general contracting platform any citizen will give him timely monitoring for each stage of the contract, and achieving a complete tracking of public spending management.”

The opinion was sent to the Senate in the Republic for its constitutional effects.