The Senate confirms open dialogue on Sheinbaum's proposed new Telecommunications Law.

The Senate announced this Friday that a process of "open, plural, and constructive dialogue" will begin next Monday, April 28, with the stakeholders involved and interested in the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

In a statement, the Upper House detailed that the dialogue process will be organized by the Political Coordination Board ( Jucopo ), which is chaired by Morena senator Adán Augusto López Hernández.

This measure seeks to " enrich the legislative debate through the active participation of all sectors," the Senate reiterated, seeking to heed President Sheinbaum's call during her morning press conference this Friday.

In response, the president of the Jucopo will formally request the Senate Board of Directors to withdraw the ruling, already approved by committees, from the agenda for April 28th, thereby postponing its discussion and vote in the Plenary Session, with the intention of "allowing the necessary time for public and technical deliberation."

President Claudia Sheinbaum sent the telecommunications bill to Congress this week, just days after the controversial broadcast in Mexican media of a U.S. government advertisement against immigration, which she had deemed "discriminatory." She maintained that the legislation also sought to prevent foreign governments from broadcasting political or ideological propaganda in Mexico.

In light of the debate surrounding the initiative, Sheinbaum urged legislators to open a debate on the initiative and said it wasn't necessary to complete the Senate's approval of the document next week, as legislators had planned.

"If there are doubts, let's open the discussion in the Senate; it doesn't have to be approved on Tuesday," he said. "Let's enrich the proposal we made," he emphasized, suggesting that business leaders, authorities, and experts debate the issue.

Sheinbaum even proposed moving the debate in Congress to a special session in May or June.

Last Thursday, the Senate's joint committees on Radio, Television, and Cinematography, Communications and Transportation, and Legislative Studies approved the decree issuing the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law by 29 votes from Morena, PVEM, and PT, and nine from the PAN, PRI, and MC.

The bill aims to become the new legal framework for telecommunications and broadcasting in Mexico. Among its new features, the initiative proposes a different approach to the future allocation of radio spectrum in the country, one that would not only prioritize economic factors.

( With information from Nicolás Lucas .)