Problems in Congress

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"I don't have any commercial bond neither of business", in the sector: Carpinteyro
Problems in Congress
By: Carlos Damian                                                 June 26, 2014
Carpinteyro says that “it is crime it is to legislate to only favor to some": the rich ones
Mexico. - After the filtration of a phone conversation in that is listened planning business in telecommunications with a manager, the legislator of the PRD, Carpinteyro, in turn she is secretary of the Commission secretary of the Commission of Telecommunications of to Camera of Deputies, she announced their decision of retiring of the discussion process in course on the secondary laws in the area of telecommunications, although it reiterated that she doesn't have any bond of business or commercial with investors of the field. This case reiterates the discretionary traditional with which the political class of our country harms the line recurrently among the public thing and that private. Indeed it is not the only case in which public servants take advantage of their position of power to negotiate own business or of third people.

A case paradigmatic that he comes to the inkwell is that of the former legislator Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, an outstanding PAN’ man, celebrated to take advantage of its numerous positions to contest against the State; that of the former government executive Juan Camilo Mouriño who was submerge in numerous conflicts of interests related with the energy field during the acting like legislator and he like secretary of State, and that of the senator for the white - blue party Javier Lozano who at the moment participates in the debate process and reformations in telecommunications in spite of having family bonds evidently with directive of the enterprise Televisa Co.

Deputy Purificacion Carpinteyro Calderon (PCC), from PRD, she decided to apologize of participating in the debate process and voting of the secondary legislation of telecommunications, after on Tuesday (6/24/14), she spread the recording of a phone conversation in which speaks with a manager about creating a business n the sector. In their twitter bill @PuriCarpinteyro, as well as in a blog, the legislator pointed out that the bottom of diffusing the conversation is a personal attack, with the purpose of to scare her and to discredit her. "No. I don't see where the conflict of interests is… I don't have any commercial bond neither of business in the area of telecommunications, and I insist in that it is not an error to think of the applications of the law in future business that they have to do with telecommunications, that they have with doing with telecommunications.

“What is a crime is to legislate to only favor to a small sector and not to all the Mexicans", it justified. Even, she said that as well as she made her, the deputies of the denominated “telegroup” (telebancada) should also apologize of participating in the debate, and it urged them “to look from the barrier this process and to put to Mexico in the preponderant paper and not to the means that send them and they pay them; to that they don't fear to accept that they are not impartial and neutrals". The fractions VI, VII and XIII of the article 8 of the regulation of the Camera of Deputies they force the legislators “to inform of the matters in those that have interests or they can obtain personal benefits and to apologize of participating in the promotion, administration, recommendation and discussion of the same ones", and “they´re try to abstain from carrying out acts that are incompatible with the function that they carry out as well as to be shown with legislator's character in all kinds of matters or private business."

In passed October, PCC tried that the transitory article 12 of the Federal Law of Rights was eliminated, to fix the payment of the concessionaires for the use of the radio electric spectrum with the argument that if you gets paid to the television’s chains, these would transfer the cost to the users. On the other hand the coordinator of the PRD in the Senate, Miguel Barbosa (MB), it demanded to the directive tables of both Chambers of the Congress that the necessary measures are adopted to retire of the discussion and voting of the secondary laws in telecommunications to all the legislators that have conflict of interest. According to the president of the PRD, Jesus Zambrano (JZ), with respect to the legislators that form the "telegroup ", she says that it is evident that they won't legislate with the impartiality that is required". She also adds that the managerial bonds of the group of deputies of the PRI are known, PAN and of the PVEM, well-known as “green party”, “as well as those of senator Javier Lozano and other that have evident nexuses with companies of the field of telecommunications”.

In the same way MB was pronounced, when declaring that its group of legislators rejects in definitive form that a public servant is part of a connection to plan business, and he noticed that it is not only deputy PCC, but of other legislators that in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies they have conflict of interests. She referred to the members of the telegroup that worked for the television´s chains and the direction organs, and they are forced to retire them of the regulation laws of telecommunications. She became discreet when inquiring the journalists about this commercial group of legislators, but all know these four senators of the PRD: Nynfa Salinas, the owner's daughter of Aztec television’s chain; Luis Armando Melgar who presides over the Aztec Foundation in Chiapas; Carlos Alberto Puente, former adviser of the National Camera of the Industry of the Radio and the Television, and Gerardo Flores, former adviser of Televisa Co. In the same way, senator Arely Gomez, of the PRI, sister of the vice-president of News of Televisa Co., and of the president of the Commission of Communications and Transports who he heads the negotiations of the laws of telecommunications, the PAN’s man Javier Lozano whose wife forms part of the Foundation Televisa Co. After it spread the recording made “illegally and also published without permission some", between PCC and the manager of the sector of the telephony José Gutierrez Becerril, JZ reiterated that the PRD is delimited of any pretense of legislating in favor of some particular interest, for that that in consistency and to avoid a deviation of the debate, he requested to the legislator to retire of the discussions in the Congress. Before PCC of the debate came out in the Congress for order of its party, Juan Pablo Adame, federal deputy of the PAN, said that PCC incurs in an evident conflict of interests when planning the creation of a business related with the telecommunications and at the same time to participate in the discussions on the laws of the sector.

The cloudy case of the telegroup 
However we have to recognize that beyond the diffused recordings they are using to adulterate the declarations of PCC and the political posture that it represents in the national debate the one mentioned structural reformation, the episode it puts on the table of discussions the serious distortion in that it operates the political institutional of our country, the deviation without hiding of the behavior that should have the legislators, since the function of them it is to legislate for the very common one and not to use this knowledge and position “to be taken out bingo", and the illegitimacy that hangs on the sovereign institutions and on the processes crucial legislatives for the country; end of bills what we have is the tip of the iceberg in that it also converges the placement of employees of the Television’s chains in legislative positions (telegroup), with the objective of impacting in the corresponding modifications. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2-7, June 26, 2014).