The president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova, exposed disqualifications and threats from the federal government at the Regional Forum for the Americas of the Electoral Democracy Summit.
In his participation, the counselor president said that in Mexico there is a “harassment” towards the electoral authority, which he said have become more novel and dangerous coming from public power.
For example, he said that of 869 mornings of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in 299 he has spoken of the INE and 63% were direct attacks.
Participation of Lorenzo Córdova in the Regional Forum for the Americas of the Electoral Democracy Summit.
He also highlighted the threats made by Morena Senator Félix Salgado Macedonio, made in April 2021, after the INE resolved to withdraw his candidacy to the government of Guerrero for not presenting pre-campaign expenses.
He also highlighted the “budgetary suffocation” of the institute, which in 2021 began a legal battle to receive sufficient resources to carry out the exercise of revocation of mandate. Although the INE organized the consultation with fewer polling places than those planned before the cut, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) ruled that the Chamber of Deputies did not justify the amount granted to the electoral body.
He even pointed to the president’s electoral reform proposal as an attempt to relieve the INE and limit its functions.
“It is a way to threaten the authorities and promote a capture of the electoral system, undermine equity and the party system and a fracture of representative capacity,” he said.
The president’s electoral reform initiative proposes radical modifications to the Mexican electoral system, which impact the configuration of the federal Congress and in the states, the financing of political parties, the integration of electoral bodies (the INE and the TEPJF), and the model of political communication through which parties access times on radio and television.
The proposal requires a two-thirds vote of the chambers.
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