Mexico City.- Facing the next elections that will be given for the renewal of powers in six states of the republic; Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo. The National Electoral Institute (INE) pledged to guarantee the security of future democratic processes. This was announced by the president counselor of the INE, Lorenzo Córdova, who reported that he held a meeting with Adán Augusto López, Secretary of the Interior and Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of the Secretariat of Public Security and Citizen Protection to establish the implementation of the Protection Strategy in the Electoral Context 2022. In this meeting we talked about the need to detect threats, risks and vulnerabilities to prevent, avoid and punish criminal actions in the electoral context,” Lorenzo Córdova explained in a video published on social networks.
He explained that all this includes strengthening security in all entities in which a local electoral process will be held in order to guarantee the right to vote of all citizens.” This shielding of elections is fundamental, to guarantee the right of citizens to exercise a free and informed vote. And to promote that the electoral campaigns of the local elections that will begin on April 3 are developed in a context of democratic peace and civility, “he added. Córdova recalled that this is not the first time in which the INE collaborates with other government bodies in different matters, since he pointed out that during the previous electoral process there was collaboration with authorities from various areas such as; internal politics, public security, health, education among others. Read more: AMLO is not enough! Lilly Téllez criticizes Beatriz Gutiérrez for having fun in FOTO”The INE fully exercises and permanently defends its constitutional autonomy, but it conceives itself as an institution of the Mexican State, which can and should collaborate with both the Federal Government, the state and municipal governments, as well as with the other powers of the Union, for the good progress of our democracy,” he said. A job of height and a lot of risk, that of Javier Vázquez in Culiacán
