“We have already overcome the Court. Let me tell you that there is a new one, now the INE is coming. What is the INE proposing? That it needs, it says, 13 billion pesos to make the election,” said Mayor during an event in Colima .
“Do you think he needs more money than the presidential election to elect judges, magistrates and ministers?” he asked.
“There will be no campaigns, there will be no resources for political parties, there will be none of that and yet the INE has been insisting on these amounts,” he expressed to the party’s followers.
The General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) approved requesting spending for next year for 27,269 million pesos, and endorsed that the precautionary budget for an eventual extraordinary election of members of the Judicial Branch be for 13,205 million pesos.
The president advisor of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, said that it was budgeted with “prudence” and justified the sum: “there is a parameter that governs the amount, “if we start from the base of the installation of 170,000 boxes, from there we begin to define ”.
The sum was criticized by President Claudia Sheinbaum, who urged economization.
The counselor explained: “we do not have a reference that gives us the margin of budgeting, we only have the reference of the electoral processes of the Executive and Legislative branches.”
He admitted that there is still a lack of definition of the geographical framework, which, counselor Dania Ravel previously explained, serves to trigger all the tasks that the INE will have to carry out, but that is precisely why it was budgeted – he maintained – with “prudence.”
The INE will request spending for 27,269 million pesos, and endorsed that the precautionary budget for the eventual extraordinary election of judges, ministers and magistrates, will be 13,205 million pesos, so in 2025 it will request the largest budget in its entire history, 40,474 millions of pesos.
The spending proposal, however, is not definitive, since the precautionary budget is only exercised if a judicial election or a popular consultation must be held, for which another 4,621 million pesos were provided on a precautionary basis.
The INE will act as the base budget and its project portfolio of 15,295.8 million pesos.
To this will be added 7,354 million pesos for the financing of the six political parties in 2025; the precautionary measure of the eventual popular consultation for 4,621 and 13,205 million pesos for a possible extraordinary electoral process for judicial positions.
