On March 3, with the rejection of councilors and the opposition bloc for the federal government’s interference with the autonomy of the National Electoral Institute (INE), the General Council appointed Roberto Heycher Cardiel Soto as head of the office and took the legal protest of the Executive Secretariat, replacing Edmundo Jacobo Molina.
The now former executive secretary Jacobo Molina was immediately dismissed, after the publication and entry into force of the second package of the so-called “Plan B” of the electoral reform of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
While politicians related to the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador have supported the removal of Edmundo Jacobo Molina from his position as executive secretary of the National Electoral Institute (INE) due to the electoral changes, opposition councilors and politicians have criticized the fact derived from the publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) of the second park of the so-called “Plan B” of the electoral reform.
The Mexican president has denied that his electoral reform, known as “Plan B” and which came into force on Friday, affects democracy and the elections despite growing alerts from specialists in Mexico and abroad.
“Everything is a pretext for the corrupt conservatives to confront the government because there is no affectation to the electoral processes, much less to democracy, on the contrary,” said the president in his daily press conference.
The president defends his “Plan B,” as the new package of legal reforms he proposed after his constitutional initiative to replace the National Electoral Institute (INE), the autonomous body that organizes elections, failed last year.
The electoral reform, the constitutionality of which will now be analyzed by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), aroused last month questions from the US Department of State and US congressmen.
-With information from EFE.
