▲ The president of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei (center), speaks with counselors in the session on September 26.Photo Cristina Rodríguez
Lilian Hernandez Osorio
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 4, 2024, p. 4
If the budget projected by the National Electoral Institute (INE) for 2025 is approved, it would represent an increase of 6.76 percent in relation to what it requested for the current fiscal year, the year in which it organized the largest elections in the country, with more than 20 thousand candidates.
Although a reduction had been calculated for next year because there would be no federal elections, the increase is due to the estimated cost of carrying out the process to elect ministers, magistrates and judges, since it would be an additional 13,205 million pesos.
By subtracting this amount, the institute would be requesting a sum of 27,120 million pesos, which represents 10.6 billion less than what is required for 2024, so the organization of this unprecedented process could mean a higher cost than the same. federal elections on June 2.
If the preliminary draft budget that the General Council of the INE will discuss today passes, the total sum is equivalent to 40.3 billion pesos, an amount that would represent 2.5 billion more than what was requested for fiscal year 2024.
Despite the fact that in the project for 2025 the institute contemplates a decrease of 8,400 million pesos in operating expenses (salaries, payments to suppliers, institutional projects, water, rent, electricity, real estate and furniture) compared to what requested for 2024, the total budget skyrockets precisely due to the expense involved in the process of choosing judges.
In a comparison between what the INE demanded for this year with what it projects for 2025, it made a downward adjustment in operating expenses, since last year it requested 23.7 billion pesos and now 15.2 billion.
The same happened with the resources allocated to political parties, with a drop of more than 3 billion pesos, since by 2024 it requested more than 10 billion and this year the determined formula added 7.3 billion, since there will be no federal elections as It happened this year.
Today, the General Council of the INE will approve the proposal that it will propose to the federal government to add it to the Federation Expenditure Project that the Chamber of Deputies will discuss in the next two weeks.
