Clashes over INE reform overshadow debate on reservations to the 2023 Budget

The morenista Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, meanwhile, again launched himself against two of the 11 INE advisers: President Lorenzo Córdova and Ciro Murayama, who will conclude their assignment on April 4.

That is why he placed a poster in his office with the countdown of the days remaining for both to complete their management, which he saw as the origin of the INE’s evils.

The deputy Gina Campuzano, from the PAN, warned them: “we will be relentless warriors in defense of the INE, which wants to give another budget blow.”

That is the institution that López Obrador “praised so much in its creation until it came to victory. But that’s the way dictators are, they use democracy when they come to power and when they’re in power they dedicate themselves to destroying it,” he said.

PAN member Ana Teresa Aranda Orozco considered it “disgraceful” that what was cut from the INE is going to “multiply the nation’s servants who will be completely dedicated to blackmailing the beneficiaries of social programs.”

They want, he warned, to take away resources from autonomous bodies, to extinguish checks and balances, “to annihilate democracy, to tie the electoral referee budgetarily.”

“They say that the INE is very expensive. Really? They cut 4 thousand 475 million, but what they do not say is that the Mayan Train costs seven times more than the INE. It is much, much more expensive”, explained the Brazilian PRI member Alberto Acosta Peña.

The legislator of the Citizen Movement, María Teresa Rosaura Ochoa Mejía, reminded them that Córdova will always be in the history of the 500 deputies. “We all have our proof of majority, of assignment of electoral districts assigned by the INE with the signature of Lorenzo Córdova and they will have it in their homes, forever,” she said.

The MC bench, which held a meeting with civil society organizations, announced that they will attend the march on Sunday with no intention of partisanship in the mobilization.

“We have called to go in white, in pink, do not go to the front of the contingent, go behind, do not be protagonists. Sunday is not a day in which the games should have the leading role. There are people who do not agree with the PAN, the PRI or the MC, but they agree with the INE”, the coordinator of the orange party, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, declared in an interview.

The coordinator of the PRD deputies, Luis Ángel Espinosa Cházaro, asserted that the march is organized by all.

“Despite the president’s disqualifications to a peaceful and citizen march like the many he did, he marched many times on Reforma, and even took over Reforma for months and today he is terrified that citizens come out to defend the autonomy of the INE and the He attacks in a very irresponsible, very violent, very angry way, ”he accused in an interview.

Santiago Creel, PAN deputy and president of the Chamber’s board of directors, spoke at a press conference for not using partisan colors – blue and white, in the PAN case – so that the mobilization is not confused with a partisan defense.

“The protagonist must be the free citizen,” Creel said.