At least 256 thousand members, among INE requirements for registering new parties

Fabiola Martinez

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, p. 11

Groups that aspire to form new national political parties must accredit at least 256,000 members and hold assemblies in which the authority verifies that no gifts were distributed or money received from prohibited entities.

This was established in the instructive approved this Tuesday by the Commission on Prerogatives and Political Parties of the National Electoral Institute (INE), giving the flag to this process. For now, interested parties must communicate their intention in January.

Until now, various people and associations that lost the last presidential contest have publicly expressed the objective of creating a party, such as the former opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez and the National Civic Front that promoted said nomination. Likewise, the far-right actor Eduardo Verástegui seeks this goal.

During the session of the INE commission, the representatives of the PAN, Alvaro Marváez, and Morena, Jaime Castañeda, asked the authority to inform them when it detects attempts at double affiliation, that is, when a person who is already on the registry of militants of any of the six national parties present themselves to the constituent assemblies.

Marváez also demanded that past experience be taken into account, when there were registration inadmissibility, after the Technical Inspection Unit of the INE pointed out irregularities related to the impossibility of proving the origin of contributions made in cash.

Although he did not name names, the Free Mexico group, identified with former President Felipe Calderón and Margarita Zavala, was singled out in that circumstance.

Yessica Alarcón, responsible for the executive direction of Prerogatives and Political Parties, explained that citizen organizations seeking registration must present a declaration of principles and an action program, as well as the statutes that will govern their activities, in addition to having a membership. minimum of 3 thousand people in at least 20 federal entities, or 300 in at least 200 electoral districts. People must have a voting credential with registration on the membership site, among others.