Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, November 1, 2022, p. 12
The proposed electoral reform does not seek the disappearance of the National Electoral Institute (INE) or the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF), but rather to eliminate the control of conservatism in these bodies to avoid the risk of new electoral fraud, considered the president. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. “It must be avoided because that would be a setback, a very serious issue, and these are capable of doing it, they already did it, not once, several times.
In his conference, he stated that there is a disinformation campaign by conservatives about the scope of the proposed legislative change. López Obrador insisted on his vision that if democracy has advanced in Mexico, it has not been because of the INE or the TEPJF: there is democracy in Mexico, progress has been made so that there is an authentic democracy in Mexico for the people, for the people, not for them who are always seeking to favor the powerful
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He took advantage of the allusions to political reform to stop another disinformation campaign that circulated over the weekend regarding a visit
that he would have made to Badiraguato (land of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapo), as part of his tour to Sinaloa. He denounced that various communicators on social networks invented that visit, because he only went to Guamúchil because, he said, it is very important to him to encourage the growth of agricultural production and that entity is the barn of the country
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He also alluded to the new administration in the social network Twitter, which he described as very important due to the repercussions they have on social dynamics, for which he celebrated the fact that censorship is no longer allowed, since he said: it is an instrument that was under the control of the conservatives, and if we are already talking about this, the damage that was caused when they canceled the account to (then) President Donald Trump has to be repaired
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Elaborating on the electoral issue, regarding the wave of criticism against the National Human Rights Commission for its recommendation on the performance of the INE (which is prohibited by law), López Obrador said that they disqualify it because there are still grudges since its president is Rosario Piedra, brother of Jesús Piedra, who participated in a movement revolutionary or subversive
involved in the murder of businessman Eugenio Garza Sada.
Would you support this…
-I think so. How can we not agree that the elections are fair and free? Who does not agree that the vote be respected? Who does not agree that electoral fraud should end, that so much should not be spent on the organization of elections? Who does not agree that there is only one electoral body to organize elections throughout the country and that there are not 32 electoral bodies?
On the other hand, he highlighted the successful Brazilian electoral experience last Sunday, based on electronic voting, which speeded up the dissemination of results. He considered it viable that it could be adopted in Mexico by 2024, so he suggested that a commission of legislators go to Brazil to find out about its operation and, eventually, install what is necessary in Mexico.
