With half of what was requested, 84 thousand boxes will be installed, says INE

Fabiola Martínez

La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, February 1, 2025, p. 11

So far, the National Electoral Institute (INE) is certain to receive a budget extension of 800 million pesos – practically half of what he asked – what he will reach to install 84 thousand boxes throughout the country for the judicial election of the judicial election of the Sunday, June 1.

In front of the cut applied in San Lázaro, the electoral referee asked the Ministry of Secretariat of 1,511 million pesos, in order to raise the number of boxes, although it would only receive a part shortly.

Everything is already in the Treasury, there is the process ready, to click. Nothing else is generating the structure that has to be generated by disposal of the Treasury: a portal opens, you enter, captures and when that is completed they already make the deposithe commented in an interview.

He pointed out that with extra money, plus the general available, the INE will meet the human and material needs to install 84 thousand Sectional boxesname of the new model to receive the vote.

The INE initially requested the Chamber of Deputies a general stock market of 40 billion pesos, including 7 thousand 354 million public financing to political parties and 13 thousand 205 million to organize the judicial election. Legislators approved 27 billion and, consequently, the INE reduced the budget for historical elections to 6,390 and, therefore, the number of boxes when passing to an ideal of 172 thousand, as in the election last year, to 73 thousand 850.

The head of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, said yesterday that with additional 800 million – which from the beginning of the year offered the president Sheinbaum – will install 84 thousand boxes. Because in session of the Organizing Commission it was stated that the expectation is to approve 83 thousand 997 sectional boxes throughout the country. In some sections they will install up to nine boxes, so they will look for suitable sites to install the equipment and electoral material.

Counselor Rita Bell López, a member of the Organizing Commission of the Judicial Election, was realistic to start working with the perspective that they will not have everything requested.

As far as we know, this (800 million) would be what we could advance; We do not want to leave things there in suspense and then do not happen, the ideal would already be to materialize to advancesaid.

As for the lists of candidates for the 881 positions in dispute in this election, the Minister López stressed that the law does not allow the INE to modify anything they receive from the Senate. Taddei commented in this regard that the Institute’s margin is to review that the information is consistent and complete, for which it will establish computer coordination with the Senate to determine exactly what the database of the names of possibly more than possibly more than 52 thousand candidacies.

The INE plans to print more than 600 million tickets, twice the federal elections last July, because at that time there were three contests and now there will be six: ministers, electoral magistrates (superior room and regional rooms); members of the new disciplinary court; Circuit magistrates and district judges.