Twenty-five persons have been advanced for seven seats on Mexico’s Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI).
An expert committee chose them from 147 candidates after a series of hearings and announced the nonbinding list (below) April 21. Final selection requires the votes of two-thirds of the Senate and approval by President Enrique Peña Nieto.
All five sitting commissioners are being replaced because of a new law that also expands the commission’s size to seven.
The list includes a number of current IFAI officials as Cecilia Azuara, secretary of Access to Information ; Rosa Maria Barcena , Director of Regulatory Analysis ; Alfonso Oñate Laborde , secretary of Personal Data Protection ; and Ricardo Salgado , Director of Legal Affairs. It also includes academics and officials from local governments and nongovernmental organizations.
Despite expectations, voting this week was delayed because of a debate about telecommunications legislation, according to news reports.
One analysis, on e-consulta.com, predicted the outcome of the process, saying that the next seven commissioners will be: Cecilia del Carmen Arai Azuara, María Patricia Kurczyn Villalobos, Rosa Maria Barcenas Canúas, Oscar Mauricio Guerra Ford and Francisco Javier Acuña Llamas.
They have powerful party endorsements, the report said: “Both PRI, PAN and PRD endorsed these names, as did the director of Transparency Mexico , Eduardo Bohorquez ; Coordinator of transparency and accountability Found, Haydee Pérez Garrido ; the former Commissioner of the IFAI, Jacqueline Peschard, and head of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching ( CIDE) Sergio Lopez Ayllon, among others.”
List of 25
The list of 25 candidates. For brief descriptions of them see here.
1.- Francisco Javier Acuña Llamas
2.- Raúl Ávila Ortiz
3.- Cecilia del Carmen Azuara Arai
4.- Rosa María Bárcenas Canúas
5.- Areli Cano Guadiana
6.- Luis Miguel Cano López
7.- Miguel Castillo Martínez
8.- Jorge Alejandro Chávez Presa
9.- Francisco Ciscomani Franer
10.- Luis Emilio Giménez Cacho García
11.- Rogelio Alberto Gómez Hermosillo
12.- Óscar Mauricio Guerra Ford
13.- Salvador Guerrero Chiprés
14.- Manuel Alejandro Guerrero Martínez.
15.- lfonso Hernándes Valdés
16.- Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadena
17.- María Patricia Kurczyn Villalobos
18.- Guillermo Noriega Esparza
19.- Alfonso Oñate Laborde
20.- German Palafox Palafox,
21.- Ximena Puente de la Mora
22.- Agustín Ramírez Ramírez
23.- Federico Rubli Kaiser
24.- Joel Salas Suárez
25.- Ricardo Salgado Perrilliat.
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