The Chamber of Deputies approves the first AMLO budget for 2019

Mexico City.

The Chamber of Deputies approved the Federation Expenditure Budget For 2019, the session where this issue was being discussed lasted until the early hours of the morning on Monday.

On this occasion, two different visions of the country were debated, on one side Morena considered the document as the people's budget, and on the other hand the opposition leaders branded it as a budget voter.

Both Morena and his electoral allies, PT and PES, appealed to their legislative majority in order to approve this opinion, resulting in 312 votes in favor and only 154 against.

Then the private discussion began, its end was scheduled for the next morning, however, it ended several hours before early Monday morning. The PAN and PRI legislators left the plenary session with notorious discontent with the PEF project, and minutes later they were joined by a group of parliamentarians belonging to MC, with fewer reservations to the document.

What is contemplated in said document?

In this it is clearly contemplated that the Federation for 2019 spends approximately a little more than 5,838,000,000 Mexican pesos, where one of the items with The greatest benefits and resources are the social programs that are directly committed to the electoral campaign of Morena and the current Mexican president López Obrador.

Some of the adjustments that were negotiated during the last hours before the opinion was made known to the commissions, was the increase to the budget of public universities, the increase in the secretariats of Agriculture and Education, as well as a cut of 4,207 million pesos to the agencies autonomous.

Clash of arguments

Morena, being the majority party, assured that this budget is governed by the principles of austerity given by the federal government and for the generation of mechanisms so that existing expenses are more reasonable and efficient.

He affirmed on the rostrum that the first battle is winning, the one that goes against layoffs, waste and high wages that are offensive and especially with the need for increased resources economic.

Information source: adnpolitico.com