Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, December 11, 2021, p. 8
Another disagreement between Morena and counselors of the National Electoral Institute (INE) marked the reallocation of resources in the Chamber of Deputies to organize the revocation of the mandate. Despite the fact that 1,503 million pesos were channeled, the item is clearly insufficient
, there is still a deficit of 2 thousand 550 million pesos, said the president counselor, Lorenzo Córdova.
Electoral councilors and legislators from Morena crossed accusations about this process: for the INE, the deputies put the organization at risk with a disproportionate adjustment.
In response, the Morenista César Hernández reproached the INE for the preservation of privileges and a golden bureaucracy alien to republican austerity with millionaire liquidations: Now they say that they do not have enough money to revoke the mandate. Are their arguments revealing that they are willing to cancel the exercise of a citizen’s right? but under no circumstances do they want to put on the table to reduce the aforementioned privileges
.
The counselor José Roberto Ruiz Saldaña snapped: Just tell us where we got 3.830 million. That is, not 5 million, not 200 that a separation insurance can cost or things like that.
, to finance the revocation of mandate.
Under the pretext of austerity we are trying to define a budget reduction, but, in reality, what I see is that it is motivated by the anger that exists from a perspective of authority and powers and this parliamentary majority that has not seen that the INE has fulfilled its constitutional duties
, the counselor Claudia Zavala demanded of Morena.
To believe that the cuts are punishing the INE is to seriously confuse things and not realize that the impact is not on the electoral authority, but on the citizens.
The representatives of the PRI, PAN and PRD intervened in the discussion, in defense of the INE.
Councilor Uuc-Kib Espadas questioned: Can you organize cheaper elections? Yes, of course, at the cost of going back to the times of electoral fraud. I am not willing and I hope that this collegiate body is not either
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Córdova highlighted the scope of the adjustment for the INE: The proper organization of this unprecedented exercise is put at serious risk, which implies its realization in the terms in which the law of the matter mandates it
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The representative of Morena Mario Llergo assured that the approved budget conforms to the constitutional requirements and mandates to carry out this exercise
urging the INE to carry out a true exercise of republican austerity.
And slipped a question for the institute: Is the INE considering canceling the process of organizing the revocation of mandate until the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation resolves the constitutional controversy
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He got no reply.
