Córdova announces concurring vote
After endorsing and welcoming Heycher Cardiel Soto, the president of the INE, Lorenzo Córdova, announced that although the Institute will abide by the law, “because the law, yes, the law is the law”, from now on it will issue a concurring vote in all those points that have to do with “Plan B”.
“In this and in the following point and in all those that have to be taken to implement these regulations, because here (in the INE), we are not going to stop applying the Law. As long as I am in office and have to vote on any point that has to do with this (electoral changes), that it is a vote that I exercise only because the law says so, but it is a vote that goes against my conscience and my democratic convictions,” he said.
In addition, he delimited, it is a vote that, applying the law, would go against the constitutional mandate. “And I will record that in every decision that is made from now on and I invite my colleagues who wish to do so, to join that concurring vote,” he mentioned.
During the discussion of the first of the two points on the agenda, Eurípides Flores Pacheco, representative of Morena before the so-called “horseshoe table”, celebrated the sudden dismissal of Jacobo Molina, commenting that it is a “relevant day for Mexican democracy.
“Democracy is not Edmundo Jacobo, it is not the electoral mafia. They (the directors and the executive secretary) believe that they have given us the triumphs. It is time to locate yourself, councilors, electoral mafia, and it is time to comply with the law, even if you do not like it, ”he launched.
“What hurts them is that control of the resources is taken away from them, that is the real fight of the electoral mafia,” added the morenista.
Faced with such remarks, Córdova called for respectful conduct towards the plenary session, remembering that while he heads the General Council, he will not allow anyone to conduct himself with insults towards any of the members of the INE.
