The majority of Morena (party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador) and its allies in the Chamber of Deputies generally approved the Expenditure Budget of the Federation (PEF) for 2024, for more than 9 billion pesos, but without considering a fund for the reconstruction of Acapulco.
The result of the vote was 262 votes in favor and 216 against, in addition to one abstention.
The opposition legislators regretted that they had not considered allocating resources to support the victims of Guerrero, and announced that they would present reservations to the ruling, starting today, to reallocate the budget and form a fund to rebuild Acapulco.
Morena proposed using the surpluses that reach the Federation Treasury, without specifying an amount; The PAN proposed cutting spending on priority works and federal government spending, and taking 10% of government trusts to create a fund with 200 billion pesos; and the PRI proposed transferring 40 billion pesos from another program for reconstruction.
The pro-government congresspeople approved the cut of 13 billion pesos to the autonomous bodies, including the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) and the National Electoral Institute (INE).
Representative Cynthia López Castro (PRI) reported that 3,500 reservations were registered for the opinion of the Federation Expenditure Budget (PEF) for 2024.
Reserved items will begin to be discussed starting tomorrow, and are expected to sell out until next Thursday.
He also pointed out that the Secretariat of National Defense is among the entities that will benefit from an increase in its budget since it will receive 142 billion pesos.
On the contrary, there was a reduction for the Ministry of Health, and no resources were allocated for the reconstruction of Acapulco. “We do not see an increase in education, in health, in medicines; and it is inhuman not to allocate a single penny to the people of Acapulco and the state of Guerrero”, Lopez Castro concluded.
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