translated from Spanish: AMLO morning conference to be cancelled in elections

Mexico City.- The official Lorenzo Córdova Vianello, who serves as president of the General Council of the National Electoral Institute, declared that the broadcasts of the “morning” conferences of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be removed from television until the conclusion of the election campaigns. Córdova Vianello stated that the criterion that the NSO will assume that these conferences would be taken as a space for dissemination and promotion of government actions and this would be contradictory to the transparecia of political elections. 
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The transmission of this program is considered government propaganda and he explained that this means that, according to electoral law, electoral propaganda has to be interrupted from the start of the campaigns until polling day.

“From the beginning of April and in some cases, even earlier, the full broadcast of the morning conferences should be suspended. If a media outlet transmits a bite or expression, that may be because it has a news interest, but the current criterion is that government propaganda cannot be disseminated during campaigns. That criterion is what we’re going to apply,” he said.

Lorenzo Córdova Vianello. Afp

The official explained that both the President of the Republic and any other public official are constitutionally obliged to maintain impartiality in their actions and sayings. In turn, the INE has issued preventive or inhibitory guardianship to call on the president to be responsible and comply with the Constitution, not to violate the mandate or intervene in its investiture with comments that may distort the fairness of the contest.” Is it good in campaigns that there are those who speak well or in favor of the government and who speaks against it? Yes, but that’s not the turn of public officials, it’s up to parties and their candidates,” he explained.

Elections in Mexico will be arbitrated by the INE. Afp

It went ahead that after the notification of the judgment on the matter of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the Federation that defining inhbitory guardianship was a novelty and therefore it should not be the commission of complaints of the INE but its General Council to rule.” It will be taken to the General Council, an advance which in the coming days we will have to discuss it and eventually, if the majority considers it, take it to the council so that it is clear what are the rules to which all public officials will have to submit. It’s not even a definition for a specific official,” he said.



Original source in Spanish

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