Unanimously, the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) approved a financing amount of 6,233 million 510,798 pesos to the seven national political parties in 2023, resources that will be included in the budget project that the electoral body will request from the Chamber. of Deputies for next year.
During a session of the General Council this Wednesday, the counselor Norma Irene De La Cruz indicated that the INE anticipated the work of projecting financing in 2023 for the parties, who called on them to use the resources properly.
Counselor Ciro Murayama stated that in the distribution of resources, the INE did not promote any benefit to any party, but only applied the formula established by the Constitution. He defended that private financing is currently limited, because otherwise it would be to privatize politics and allow illegal resources to flow into politics. He mentioned that the consequences of breaking the current model of public financing of political parties should be warned about.
“Today, pretending that the parties do not have ordinary (public) financing, can be popular, can receive applause, but have negative consequences for society,” he warned.
postures
Euripides Flores, Morena’s substitute representative, affirmed that his party “does not need money to advance in its struggle”; He maintained that Morena reintegrated resources into the Federation from its financing from previous years (something that the PRI and PAN representatives disputed). He asserted that his party is not interested in receiving public resources because, for example, this year he won four of six governorships. “We are not in the business of spending on multi-million dollar advisers,” he said.
The representative of the PAN, Víctor Hugo Sondón, responded that perhaps Morena does not require public financing, because it is using the federal government’s budget for it, “which is serious,” he said. Expressing his support for the agreement approved by the INE, he said that each peso received by the parties is controlled by the INE.
The PRI representative, Hiram Hernández, questioned that Morena proposes not to receive public financing, but his party is responsible for withholding 10% of the salary of 550 employees of the municipal government of Texcoco during the administration of Delfina Gómez, resources that were used to her campaign for federal deputy in 2015.
