[Chapter-delegates] ACTA did not fare well today...

[Alejandro Martinez-Varela]

Great News!!

As comment to your previous twit "At least some ears caught the message from
the senate".

Varela.


2010/10/5 Alejandro Pisanty <apisan at servidor.unam.mx>

> Hi,
>
> a few minutes ago, the Senate of Mexico approved unanimously an agreement
> to:
>
> 1. form a plural group of Senators to study ACTA;
>
> 2. have this group call for public discussions and consultations on ACTA;
>
> 3. request that the Executive suspend negotiations of ACTA until the
> consultations are made.
>
> We have had a small participation in this through our constant interaction
> with a leading Senator and the Senate's Science and Technology Commission,
> which he chairs.
>
> During the session today I made a call for a moratorium instead of an
> all-out all-or-nothing motion by a group of Senators that just called for
> the Government to retire from the Agreement, which was very unlikely to
> pass.
>
> Others will be better informed as to our degree of influence. The good
> thing is the real-time news that the vote passed... and ACTA didn't.
>
> Formally the Senate has no immediate say on treaties. Like elsewhere, it is
> supposed to wait till it they are signed, then ratify. However, a recent law
> does obligate the Executive to inform the Senate as treaties are being
> negotiated. That was grounds enough to give today's vote some teeth.
>
> The story is only beginning...
>
> Yours,
>
> Alx
>
>
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Ing. Alejandro Martínez Varela
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Universidad de Guadalajara

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