President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador described as an “aberration” the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) of having removed the prohibition that the high public servants to work in private initiative 10 years after leaving the federal public administration.
“It is an aberration, how is it possible to return to what was before, and what was what was before? well, the national shame that the one who privatized the railroads, the one who put an end to a history of a century and a half, Ernesto Zedillo, is going to work as an advisor to the company to which he handed over the railroads.
“And (Felipe) Calderón does the same, he helps Iberdrola, a private monopoly company that controls electricity in Spain, and offers him to work as a director when his mandate ends and he forms part of the board.”
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In his press conference at the National Palace, the head of the federal Executive stated that he did not agree with the decision of the country’s highest court of justice.
“Now the Court corrects us because our Austerity Law established that a high-ranking public servant, after leaving his job, cannot go to work for a private company linked to his previous job. The Bank of Mexico, all those who finish go to private banking or from private banking to the Bank of Mexico, a hodgepodge, an immoral administrative political promiscuity, I do not agree with that.
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President López Obrador said that he is analyzing rethinking that lock in the Republican Austerity Law.
“We have to find a way, I am not going to remain silent in the face of these aberrations. Yes, it is that they already offended us, to say the least, with these practices, so we are going to continue”.
On Monday, the SCJN declared the invalidity of the rule that prohibits former high-ranking public officials from being employed in private industry as established by the Federal Republican Austerity Law.
By unanimity of 11 votes, the ministers of the Court resolved that the rule sets an unnecessarily long term for former high-ranking officials to be employed in the companies that they supervised or regulated from the government.
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