Fabiola Martinez
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, October 30, 2025, p. 4
With the legal deadline at its limit, the advisors of the National Electoral Institute (INE) not only continue without reaching agreements for the appointment of members of local public organizations (Oples), but even, regarding this issue, conflicts arise even to agree on deliberative meetings.
“There are shouts and hats,” said a source from the body, referring to the divisions among the members of the General Council, at a time when the current members of the Oples warn of risks if we insist on eliminating them in the next electoral reform.
Although the appointments of the members of 17 Oples (state electoral institutes) must be given no later than tomorrow (Friday), “each INE councilor brings an agenda that prevents him from participating in the meetings; one of the councils even proposed that the deliberative meeting be at four in the morning.”
Others, the sources added, reflect having commitments to certain candidates, since the analysis does not predominate in the background of purification (exam, essay, interviews and curricular review), although this process had the support of UNAM, El Colegio de México and the National Evaluation Council.
For now, the Oples of Zacatecas, Yucatán and San Luis Potosí continue to have serious financial problems.
Defense
This Wednesday the INE received two more initiatives to be included in the general proposal that will be delivered next month to the presidential commission for the reform.
With different nuances, it is pointed out that the national electoral system established in 2014 has allowed 335 local processes to be carried out without conflicts after election day.
“The model has guaranteed democratic conditions and stability,” highlighted Christian Uziel García, counselor of the Ople de Hidalgo.
Together with other participants in the tables held at the INE, he pointed out that the disappearance of the Oples would imply an unprecedented burden for the INE, since a council would need to be created in each municipality.
With the above, they said, the intended savings would be nullified and, on the other hand, democratic and electoral principles would be affected.
In a message from the Presidential Counselor, Guadalupe Taddei, read by the Executive Secretary, Claudia Espino, it was pointed out that any reform process must have as a clear and inalienable objective the strengthening of democracy.
First, with members of the National Network of Electoral Counselors for an Inclusive Democracy and, later, with members of the National Network of Citizenship and Organizations for Civic Education, the common point was the alert for the future of the Oples, currently financed by state governments, but also with support from the INE.
The results, indicated the members of the Oples, are reflected in an effective alternation of national and local political forces throughout the country.
