Mexico City could experience a significant change with the proposal to create six new districts as part of the "reorganization of boroughs" promoted by the National Action Party (PAN) during the second session period of the Legislature of the capital Congress, which will begin next Wednesday, February 5.
Deputy Diego Garrido, while presenting the Legislative Agenda of National Action, revealed that the proposal contemplates leaving Mexico City with a total of 22 boroughs, an initiative that has been pending since 2018, a year after the entry into force of the Political Constitution of CDMX.
According to the provisions of the twenty-second transitory article of the capital constitution, the process of reviewing the configuration of the districts that make up Mexico City should have started by December 2019. In this line, the division of Iztapalapa into four new boroughs, Gustavo A. Madero into three, and Álvaro Obregón into two is proposed, with the objective that each borough has a population of 350 to 400 thousand inhabitants, a figure similar to the average of the other boroughs of the capital.
Deputy Garrido explained that this initiative is not new, as in previous years the PAN had presented a similar bill to reorganize the territory. In this regard, it was detailed that Iztapalapa would be divided into the boroughs of Cuitláhuac, Ignacio Zaragoza, Tezonco, and Acatitla; while Gustavo A. Madero would be subdivided into Cuautepec, Lindavista, and Aragón.
Regarding the resources necessary for these new boroughs, it was emphasized that they would not represent an additional burden on the budget, as the budget currently assigned to the existing boroughs would be redistributed. According to Garrido, the territorial division would allow for a higher quality in the provision of services to citizens by ensuring closer and more timely attention to neighborhood demands.
The twenty-second transitory article of the Political Constitution of Mexico City states that the process of reviewing the territorial configuration of the districts should have started by December 2019 at the latest, and that the boundaries of the districts would be determined by the local public electoral body.
With this proposal, it aims to comply with what is stipulated in the capital constitution and ensure a balanced distribution of population sizes among the various boroughs of Mexico City.
