Córdova gave the inaugural conference of the seminar “The states in 2022, the new partisan distribution”, within the framework of the Francisco I. Madero Chair, coordinated by the UNAM professor Rosa María Mirón Lince.
There he said that the amendments affect the five great democratic conquests that have been achieved in the country: the first, the autonomy and independence of the electoral bodies; the second, the existence of a Professional Electoral Service, that is, of a body of professionals who enter this service through public competition.
The third, said Córdova, the permanent presence of the INE throughout the territory through decentralized and permanent offices, which will allow the function of issuing the voting card with photography and updating the electoral roll to be fulfilled on time.
The fourth, he referred, is the existence of an electoral registry managed with technical criteria under the supervision of the political parties, but built without political criteria and administered autonomously and independently of the parties and the government. And fifth, the conditions of fairness of the competition.
Córdova recalled that at the beginning of the regular session, in February, the Senate could ratify the changes made by the deputies to Plan B for the electoral reform, and with this send the amendments for their promulgation.
The INE will file an action of unconstitutionality before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). And “it is very probable that they appear, I am not saying hundreds, I am not saying thousands, tens of thousands of protections, labor lawsuits, labor protections and even appeals before the Electoral Tribunal, because this reform puts at risk in this exercise full of the political rights of Mexicans,” he said.
It will even be possible to go through this route “any citizen who considers that this reform jeopardizes their right to vote or even to be voted in authentic elections, can and will surely challenge them through the legal channels at their disposal, amparo, trials before the Electoral Tribunal. So, no, all is not lost, it is up to the citizens and it is up to the institutions to stop it, ”he noted.
INE workers fear cuts
Meanwhile, the directors, the Executive Secretary Edmundo Jacobo; officials members of the expanded General Executive Board, and executive members of the 32 entities, met to analyze the impacts of the electoral reform under discussion in Congress.
“As members of the Professional Electoral Service, the executive members expressed concern about the effects that the changes proposed by the reform would have on the organization of electoral processes,” it was reported.
