The Senate will open to the public the conversations around the initiative of the law in terms of telecommunications and broadcasting, which will begin on Wednesday, April 30 and will be carried out without a fixed date of conclusion, since “they will last what is necessary” to listen to all the sectors involved, according to a note from the reform website.
Adam Augusto López, president of the Political Coordination Board, informed that tomorrow he will present a formal proposal before the leaders of the parliamentary groups to define the route of these meetings, where representatives of the Federal Executive, the telecommunications and broadcasting industry will participate, as well as social organizations and experts in the field.
The senator said that the National Chamber of the Radio and Television Industry will be one of the first to dialogue with the legislators.
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In addition, among the possible guests highlighted the presence of the head of the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency, José Merino.
He considered that the initiative sent by the Executive undergoes before April 30, when the current session period concludes, so the discussion and possible modifications will depend on the progress of the conversations.
“I see very complicated that we will take it out in the period,” he said at a press conference.
On the other hand, a group of indigenous and Afromexican radialists from Michoacán, Oaxaca, Mexico City, State of Mexico and Sonora, gave to the Senate a proposal in which they reject the article 201 of the project, considering that it imposes barriers to freedom of expression in their communities.
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In addition, they demanded the 33% expansion of the radio spectrum for community, indigenous and Afromexican radios.
The radialists warned that the provision required by prior authorization for content financed with foreign resources is unnecessary, since the prohibition of foreign propaganda is already provided for in article 210 of the same initiative.
The newspaper El Financiero added that outside the Upper House there was a demonstration of members of the so -called Pink Marea.
The media website explained that Fernando Belaunzarán, one of the representatives of the movement, stressed that the Government cannot “say who can speak and who does not. Who can persecute who not for expressing their ideas.”
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