OPLES in trouble
On the other hand, the General Council heard the report on the budgetary situation of the Local Electoral Public Bodies (OPLEs), which reports six federal entities in a “high risk” for their operation: Durango, Colima, Mexico City, Guerrero, Morelos and Nayarit.
While the local organizations that are at “moderate risk” are Hidalgo, Quintana Roo, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas.
“The case of the OPLE of Durango is, without a doubt, one of the most worrying because, although 19.5 million were authorized for the hiring of the company that will carry out the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) in its election, they have not been granted the necessary resources for the printing and distribution of electoral documentation”, said the janitor Dania Ravel.
Nor does it have resources for the production of some materials and the proper operation of the decentralized bodies of the public electoral bodies themselves.
“So we have 12 entities that are carrying out a local electoral process with budget problems,” added Ravel and lambasted:
“What is happening is unheard of, there are OPLEs such as the one in the State of Mexico and the one in Nuevo León that have had to subtract money from their operating expenses to allocate it to public financing that they have to give to political parties.”
The 12 OPLEs requested budget increases and only three have been granted, although not in full, but only partially. In the case of San Luis Potosí, their request was rejected without further argument and the rest, “they were not even answered,” said Ravel.
