The INE’s Audit Commission reversed a project proposing to cancel the morenist Monica Rangel’s candidacy for the government of San Luis Potosí for not reporting pre-camp expenses and decided to reduce the penalty to an economic fine.
Sources of the commission reported that, after meeting on Friday morning, election advisers dismissed the option of cancelling Rangel’s registration due to the proximity of polling day (June 6) and to give certainty to voters in San Luis Potosí.
The draft to be put to a vote by the General Council next Wednesday will propose to impose a fine of up to 5 thousand MEAs on the Morenist candidate, equivalent to 448 thousand 100 pesos, the highest figure in the category of economic sanctions.
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Councillor Ciro Murayama, a member of the Audit Committee, stated on Twitter that the “versions” that Rangel would be desumned for obstructing the control of his resources had been “mere speculation.”
However Political Animal corroborated that a project initially circulated between the members of the commission did propose to impose this sanction on the Moratist candidate for having incurred the same irregularities as Félix Salgado in Guerrero and Raúl Morón in Michoacán: not having reported to the INE reports of income and precampal expenses on the grounds that he had not had the status of precandidata.
The Audit Commission determined that Rangel did pre-camp and incurred an expense of 148 thousand 769 pesos that it did not report.
The discarded project noted that the morenist had not shown a willingness to be monitored and described the fault as intentional and “serious major”.
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