by unanimity, the Council General of the Electoral National Institute (INE) adopted the Declaration of loss of registration of parties meeting Social (PES) and new Alliance (Panal) have not obtained the three percent of the valid vote issued in any of the federal elections of last July.
The #CGINE confirmed the loss of the #PartidosPolíticos #NuevaAlianza and #EncuentroSocial registry since it did not obtain 3% in the federal elections of 1 ° July. pic.twitter.com/LgglKPMtJk – INE (@INEMexico) September 12, 2018 “are citizens, through suffrage, which decide which parties are and which parties are out of our political system, were citizens and no one but them who the 1 of” “July decided which parties would remain in the competition and what out of it”, said Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, President of INE.
Special session, I am confident that citizens who failed to form a political option at least for three percent of the electorate to “remain involved in public life, that focus for exercising their political rights in party organizations existing or in the process of formation from others”.
Cordova recalled that freedom of association laid down in the political Constitution is not restricted to the figure of matches, but it “is essential that recreate through different participation mechanisms legally foreseen in the” strengthening of our democracy”.
In that sense, it anticipated that in the coming weeks the Council General of the national election Institute will announce the guidelines allowing citizenship to form new political parties to compete in the next federal elections.
In turn, the National President of new Alliance, Luis Castro Obregón, indicated that they will attend the Court Electoral of the power of the Federal judiciary (TEPJF) “to defend our right to political association of more than 700 thousand citizens who identify themselves “with color and causes Turquoise”.
At the same time, Hugo Erick Flores, alternate representative of Social gathering and also national Chairman of the party, considered that “we are still victims of an injustice, because our votes were not properly counted”, so it will also come to the Federal Electoral Tribunal.
In response to the statements of Hugo Erick Flores that supposedly there was an error of computation, Córdova Vianello said that Social gathering had the opportunity marked by the law to register representatives to the Board of Directors of box to monitor that What sits on the proceedings and the same process of votes happens according to the law.
However, he said, it had no presence in all the tables of boxes, but in the 300 sessions of district computation, which makes the allocation of those votes where the citizen opted for two or more parties.
“That was the moment where their representatives could and should have made an argument in the sense of an eventual wrong computer,” said the owner of the INE.
