EPN calls for actions against authoritarian governments

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto called against the assumption that transparency is in opposition to democracy and warned that global experiences illustrate that the authoritarian and closed governments tend to be less transparent.

At the opening of the National Week of Transparency 2015 in the the old mansion of Xicontencátl, Peña Nieto expressed that "There is a lack of transparency, openness, and accountability. And that is what we cannot afford as society".

Before the Presidents of the chambers of Representatives and Senators, Peña Nieto favored the consolidation of a culture of transparency and accountability in the country.

He said that Mexico is a country that has evolved during the last decades towards new paradigms, and new models of conduct for a constantly evolving society.

In the former headquarters of the Senate, the President also said that transparency and democracy go hand in hand.

"Transparency allows more informed societies and better decision elements in a democracy. What we must avoid is the temptation to assume that transparency will be in opposition to democracy," expressed Peña Nieto.

"If you just try to visualize Mexico 30 or 20 years ago, we had genuinely closed governments, without perhaps a constitutional mandate, and still not with a mandate to establish secondary obligations to the various governmental entities," he said.