Despite comments made by the chairman of the House Political Coordination Committee, Ricardo Monreal, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum denies plans to submit new gambling and lottery laws to Congress.
It was reported that representatives of the Political Coordination Committee (Jucopo) met with the Minister of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
Rodríguez informed them that the Presidential Office is preparing new reforms to the current legislation aimed at eradicating corruption in Mexican casinos and stopping extortion.
Rosa Icela Rodríguez and Ricardo Monreal "She indicated that in the coming days or weeks, the executive branch will propose a new initiative for gambling and lottery laws, as the law has not been modified since 1946," Monreal commented to the media after the meeting.
However, in the morning meeting, the President detailed her government's intention, through the Ministry of the Interior, led by Rosa Icela Rodríguez, to only communicate with the owners of these establishments.
The purpose of these conversations is to discuss regulations, but not to create new legislation on this matter.
Specifically, Sheinbaum was asked about the fate of the Hipódromo de las Américas and its potential operation by the Mexican military. "This is a concession. No, there is no new law at the moment. Rosa Icela is a very honest woman, an extraordinary public servant, one of the best in our country, and she is talking to the owners of the casinos," she replied.
She continued to detail that Icela's task is to find out "if there is any corrupt activity and to report it immediately, to avoid these conspiracies among public servers left over from before the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador."
Sheinbaum acknowledges that the current regulations managing casinos are outdated and do not match the trends of the times, but nevertheless, the government has no plans to update or modify them.
The Federal Gambling and Lottery Law was enacted on December 31, 1947, by then-President Miguel Alemán Valdés (1946-1952).
