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Mexican Budget Approval Delayed Due to Legal Disputes

Mexico's legislative body has postponed the budget approval to next week due to legal disputes between the executive and opposition. The budget project is causing disagreements due to alleged discrepancies and legal hurdles.


Mexican Budget Approval Delayed Due to Legal Disputes

There is concern over the Executive's observation of a presumed discrepancy between the tabulators of the Revenue and Expenditure Law. Legal details regarding the social programs required by the 4T are also being refined, as although there is a fund of over 800 million pesos, a prior state-federation agreement and a justification for requiring the resource are needed. In this sense, the coordinator of PAN deputies anticipated that its approval in the Plenary could be postponed until next week, in order to anticipate reactions to the Executive's legal complaints. Legislative sources do not rule out that it will be fast-tracked for tomorrow and a session will be held for its discussion in the Plenary next Monday. The project is expected to include considerable reductions to the central government - in advertising spending, the central government, and state social programs - and as justification, various items tagged as nearly 900 million pesos in debt to mayors, 800 million for 4T support, 150 million to reduce the transport fare by 25%, among others. Facing the open intention of Palacio de Cantera to legally hinder the budget previously structured by PRI, PAN, and Morena in Congress, the legislative factions are measuring the creation of the Fiscal Package to impose locks and prevent the legal advance of MC. LPO was able to learn that the opposition bloc is analyzing the budget project in detail to not facilitate the legal resources of the state government. "It would be too stretched and complicated to get it out in the Plenary, because you would have to read everything in the Commission and then read everything in the Plenary and the truth is that it would require a strong number of hours.... tentatively, as we go, yes we would go until next week," stated De la Fuente. "We are working, but we must not take it out with too much speed and that because of that we make mistakes, we need everything to add up well, because we have to remember that everything indicates that it is going to be judicialized," he added. The fiscal package, so far, has not been referred to the Budget Commission, which remains permanent.