“… The unit responsible for the dependency or entity from whose budget the resources have been granted, or that coordinates its operation, will be responsible for applying them for the purposes for which the trust was created.”
“Trusts are not illegal. They are supported by the Political Constitution that determines that the INE will have the budgetary, technical, human and material resources that it requires for the exercise of its function”, noted the autonomous electoral body.
“Together, the trusts have a balance of 1,353.09 million pesos, of which only 626.15 million pesos are available, but they cannot be used for other purposes than those specified,” he remarked.
The discussion again
One of the debates around the INE trusts arose in the midst of the cut to its budget for Fiscal Year 2022 that the Chamber of Deputies approved for almost 5,000 million pesos and the refusal to grant it the 3,800 million pesos that it requested so precautionary measure to carry out the revocation exercise.
In January this year, the federal government presented an austerity plan for the INE. In this context, Thalía Lagunas Aragón, senior official of the Ministry of Finance, explained that the estimated balance of both trusts amounts to 1,360 million pesos, of which, she said, a little more than 868.7 million pesos can be disposed of.
Before, in November 2021, Adán Augusto López, Secretary of the Interior, stated that despite the cut of some 5,000 million pesos that the INE budget will have for 2022, the electoral body could organize the revocation of the mandate because it had financial resources of trusts.
“The Chamber of Deputies, I understand that indicates that the institute does have that money and that it has it in some funds, in some trusts. The situation is that the budget cut or non-growth is of the order of 5,000 million pesos”, he explained on that occasion.
