In the positions, deputies of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) bench, whose vote will be decisive for the reform to prosper or not, insisted that they will obey the mandate of the march on November 13 (“the INE does not touch itself”) and therefore they will not approve the opinion in committee or in plenary session.
“The PRI ratifies a resounding no to this attack against democracy,” warned Cynthia López Castro, a PRI deputy.
For Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party (PVEM), the central axis of the reform was placed on the issue of austerity.
The morenista Ismael Brito stressed that it seeks to eliminate ordinary expenses of the parties; save 710 million pesos a year by eliminating 14,000 councillors; another 200,000 pesos per year with each local deputy eliminated. The total would be 1,109 in the 32 entities, as projected.
They say “the INE does not touch itself, playing a scratched record” warned Mario Miguel Carrillo, from Morena:
“It is false that we want its powers to go to the Ministry of the Interior and that Morena is going to organize the elections,” he added.
“At no time is it disappearing, it is not disappearing, it is getting stronger, it is a change of nomenclature. Stop deceiving the people of Mexico,” he warned.
The PAN member María Elena Pérez Jaén recalled that in the elections of June 6, 1988, electoral fraud was denounced and its head was the then Secretary of the Interior Manuel Bartlett, today head of the Federal Electoral Commission (CFE), and that was what gave origin to the electoral bodies, like those that – he added – the reform seeks to remove.
They are “disguising with an alleged savings.” The INE and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) cost 22,400 million pesos a year, “while the CFE received 68,800 million pesos only from January to September of this year, that is, 46,400 million more than the INE and the TEPJF together”, accused the legislator.
Even if they say that the INE does not disappear, by seeking to have the councilors and magistrates elected, they politicize them, they take away the Federal Register of Electors (RFE), they take away their oversight bodies that have fined Morena 710 million pesos, that is eliminate the INE, established Pérez Jaén and Santiago Torreblanca, from the PAN.
Elizabeth Pérez, from the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), recalled that the ruling ignored dozens of proposals from deputies and specialists who participated in the open parliament on electoral reform.
“They ask for the disappearance of the INE, but they ask that they organize the election of the new councilors and the new magistrates, do they trust the INE or not? They talk about disappearing multi-members and everything, absolutely everything, becomes multi-member, a total and utter aberration”, said the PRD member.
