translated from Spanish: P’urhépecha communities support the consultation with Zirahuén to decide if they want to be autonomous

Michoacán.- P ́urhépecha communities adhered to the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán #CSIM requested in writing the Electoral Institute of Michoacán (IEM) to carry out in a timely manner, the consultation scheduled for next Saturday, June 26 in Zirahuén, so that this tenure decides if they want to administer the budget directly.
In the letter signed and sealed by Chiefs of Tenure, Commissariats of Communal Property and Councils of Communal Government, they also asked the IEM to guarantee the security conditions so that the consultation can be carried out freely and peacefully, and it is the community itself, which decides in general assembly, the best future for Zirahuén.
The request was signed by the authorities of Santa Fe de la Laguna, San Felipe de los Herreros, Comachuén, Sevina, Santo Tomas, Caltzontzin, Huáncito, Ichán, San Marcos, San Benito, Corupo, El Sabino, Rancho Seco and Pamatácuaro, among others, expressing solidarity with zirahuén’s tenure and demanding that the IEM’s Commission for the Care of Indigenous Peoples comply with the commitments and agreements and carry out free, prior and informed consultation in Zirahuén so that the tenure may decide whether they wish to be autonomous and administer the budgetary resource autonomously.
Here’s the full statement:
SUPPORT FOR FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSULTATION TO THE TENURE OF ZIRAHUÉN
SO THEY CAN DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO BE AUTONOMOUS AND MANAGE THE BUDGET DIRECTLY
TO THE ELECTORAL INSTITUTE OF MICHOACÁN
TO THE ORIGINAL PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES
TO THE MEDIA
P’urhèpecha Communities as of June 24, 2021
K ́eri Kunkorhekua Iretecheri, the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán #CSIM, autonomous and independent council, constituted by civil, communal and traditional authorities of 60 original communities, represented at present through the Liaison Commission, which signs and seals the fit, we fully sympathize with the sister community of Zirahuén and we demand the Electoral Institute of Michoacán (IEM) to comply with the commitments and agreements made by the Commission for the Attention of Indigenous Peoples of the IEM, and to carry out in a free and timely manner, the free, prior and informed consultation to the Tenure of Zirahuén so that they decide if they wish to be autonomous and manage the budget directly, as well as to guarantee the security conditions so that it can be carried out freely and peacefully and is the community itself , the one that decides in general assembly the best future for Zirahuén.
 
TERUNHASKUA K’ OIA, ECHERI KA JURAMUKUKUA IAMENTU IRETECHANI
JUSTICE, TERRITORY AND AUTONOMY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
 
K ́ERI KUNKORHEKUA IRETECHERI #CONSEJOSUPREMOINDÍGENADEMICHOACÁN
 
#PresupuestoDirecto #CSIM

Original source in Spanish