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Mexico City's General Development Plan Sparks Polarization

Deputy Olivia Garza accuses the Mexico City government of attempting to replace citizen committees (Copacos) with neighborhood assemblies, causing political tension. The government denies these allegations.


Mexico City's General Development Plan Sparks Polarization

The General Development Plan revives polarization in Mexico City and its treatment is delayed. With these actions, Olivia Garza deepens the accusations and denunciations against the conversations being held around the GDP. "In Morena they are used to saying one thing and doing another, so we must be careful," she remarked. This week, for example, the Secretary of Planning and Territorial Ordering of Mexico City, Pablo Yáñez Rizo, denied that the ruling party promotes this legal provision. In response, she demanded that the negatives expressed by various figures of the capital government be reflected in the project to ensure the legal permanence of the Copacos in the national capital. The local deputy for PAN and president of the Development Planning Commission of the Congress, Olivia Garza, deepened her denunciations against the citizen consultations promoted by the Institute for Democratic Planning and Foresight (IPDP) and demanded that the proposal that would replace the Copacos with neighborhood assemblies be eliminated from the project being formed for the 2025-2045 General Development Plan. This Thursday, the legislator from Iztapalapa delivered a document addressed to the general director of the IPDP, Patricia Ramírez, in which she denounced that the proposal that would eliminate the Copacos and replace them with neighborhood assemblies is included on page 36 of the project, within the axis "Democratic, of Freedoms and Access to Justice". It must be clear in the document. "We are seeing a Morena consultation for Morena," she shot back to emphasize that the tension and polarization between the ruling party and the opposition persists and extends to different current topics of the capital. At a press conference, she stated that "at no point is the disappearance of the Copacos proposed" and assured that, on the contrary, the government of Clara Brugada "is proposing the strengthening of the different citizen participation mechanisms." Last week, for example, she denounced that the ruling party would be "masking" the figures of the citizen consultations and proposals that would have arrived to formalize the project that will be discussed in a few months by the local Congress. The same one, the panista argues, seeks to "redesign the community representation model to move towards the formation of neighborhood assemblies." This Thursday, Olivia Garza presented a writing before the authorities of the IPDP. Likewise, she distrusted the authorities of the local government, who have denied that this provision is going to be effective with the new GDP. "It is not enough to say it."

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