Government of Mexico

Mexico City. The Governing Board of the National Institute of Peoples (INPI), in an extraordinary session, unanimously approved the report for the fiscal year from January 1 to June 30, 2024.

Adelfo Regino Montes, director of INPI, stated that since the federal administration is about to end, “the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, requests that the information on the administrative and financial management that has been carried out in these years, particularly in 2024, be completed.”

The General Coordinator of Administration and Finance of the INPI, Diana Montes Vásquez, reported that on “August 9 of this year, the Chávez Lerín Consulting Firm notified the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples of the independent audit report on the audited financial statements, the statements of activities of variations in Public Finance and the statement of cash flows corresponding to the first half of the current year, as well as the explanatory notes to the financial statements.”

Following approval by each of those present and in compliance with the mandate of the President of the Republic to properly exercise, register and verify public resources, Regino Montes announced the presentation of the special edition of the magazine México Indígena, which disseminates the opinion that reforms article 2 of the Federal Constitution on the rights of indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, adopted on August 9 by the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.

Therefore, it is expected that the constitutional reform will be approved next September by the LXVI Legislature, with the installation of the new Congress.

Regino Montes expressed his gratitude for the work that has been done collectively in the development of the Justice and Development Plans, and announced that he will meet, in the coming days, with the Guarijio people and the Seri people; in the latter, he will visit the Seri-Comca’ac Aqueduct.

Mexico City. On the eve of the upcoming change of government, the formal ceremony of installation of the transition and handover works at the Ministry of Health (Ssa) was held today, in a meeting headed by the head of the department, Jorge Alcocer Varela and the next secretary, David Kershenobich Stalnikowitz.

At the meeting, the next head of the department, Kershenobich Stalnikowitz, stated that, in order to build the second floor of the fourth transformation, it is important to recognize the actions carried out in the first phase, for which he has held very useful meetings in order to deepen knowledge and appreciate what the work of this department means.

Alcocer Varela acknowledged the career and performance of the person who will take over the position starting next October 1, a circumstance that, he said, is “very positive for the consolidation of the public health system that serves all Mexicans.”

The health secretary of the government headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum explained that the objective of the transition work is to comply with the law and review pending issues, distribution and structure.

The head of the Administration and Finance Unit (UAF) of the Ministry of Health, Marco Vinicio Gallardo Enríquez, explained that during the work meetings with the next secretary, he has been presented with the general context of the department from the perspective of the administration of human, material and financial resources, as well as the results, challenges and pending issues that the new administration will assume in terms of health, which represents a rich exchange of information with each of the responsible units.

The next head of the Ssa has held working meetings with Secretary Alcocer Varela and with the heads of the Undersecretariat of Integration and Development of the Health Sector, Juan Antonio Ferrer Aguilar, and of the Undersecretariat of Prevention and Health Promotion, Ruy López Ridaura. Both public servants were accompanied by their teams.

He also met with the heads of the Secretariat of the General Health Council (CSG), Marcos Cantero Cortés; the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), Alejandro Svarch Pérez; the Coordinating Commission of National Health Institutes and High Specialty Hospitals (CCINSHAE), Gustavo Reyes Terán; the National Commission for Mental Health and Addictions (Conasama), Juan Manuel Quijada Gaytán; and the National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family (SNDIF), Nuria Fernández Espresate, among others.

Mexico City. In order for the cabinet of the current government and the one appointed by the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, to implement the coordination mechanisms necessary for an orderly and transparent transition, within a maximum period of five business days the coordination table for the transition will have to be installed in the Ministry of the Interior.

This is established in the Agreement that sets the bases for the transition of the federal public administration that will take office on October 1, published in the evening edition of the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

This table will act as a collegiate body made up of the current heads of the federal government agencies and entities and those who will replace them as of October 1 of this year, in order to establish the exchange of information and adopt the necessary agreements for an “orderly, responsible and efficient transition.”

The agreement establishes that the coordination committees will meet as many times as necessary and will draw up minutes of the agreements adopted, since the aim is to establish the strategies, criteria and activities that they deem necessary to achieve an efficient transition.

Therefore, officials of the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador must provide the information requested by the next officials of Sheinbaum’s cabinet, such as aspects of human, financial, and material resources, audits, disputes, current contracts, and any matters they deem necessary.