For the National Electoral Institute, the Senate has to correct inconsistencies

Lilian Hernández Osorio

La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, p. 7

Although errors prevail in the lists of candidates for a position of the Judiciary, the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) unanimously approved, to receive the report from the Executive Secretariat, which approved its publication both in it Official Gazette of the Federation as in the Gazette of the Original Listing body (delivered on February 12), and of the two updates he received from the Senate on Sunday.

However, the electoral body clarified that this does not mean that the candidacies endorse, since they only give themselves aware of its delivery, although it will seek that the Senate sub -senates the inconsistencies as soon as possible, since it has 48 hours left before the Ballots, in order to give certainty and transparency to the process.

“It is ordered to publish the public version of the lists of candidacies delivered by the President of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Senators, as well as the updates that, where appropriate, refer said chamber in the Official Gazette of the Federation and in the Gazette of the National Electoral Institute and on the Internet page of the same, ”says the agreement approved yesterday.

The responsibility is from the Upper House: Montaño

After a discussion about the gaps detected in the listings that were not corrected and will generate effects on the following stages of the process, as well as the complaint of the counselors for the late delivery by the Executive Secretariat, the President of the Temporary Commission of the Temporary Commission of The election of the INE Judicial Power, Jorge Montaño, demarcated the Institute of Errors presented by the lists of the candidates for judges, magistrates and ministers, so he added that this Electoral body is not responsible for amending the series of inconsistencies that persist in these listings.

The counselor said that it is the chamber of senators that must deliver the corrections, because the registration of candidates did not occur before the INE (as with the candidates for legislators), which responded so much to the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum , as to the head of the Board of Directors of said Chamber, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, that the INE is not responsible for correcting errors or getting the missing data in the Lists that the Senate partially corrected twice.

At the beginning of the extraordinary session of the General Council, which was scheduled last Saturday and was postponed for noon yesterday and where the agreement by which the report of activities carried out by the Executive Secretariat with respect to accepting the Listing of candidacies of the judicial process, Montaño emphasized that the Senate has to correct inconsistencies.

The INE is not responsible for the information provided by the Senate of the Republic, since as established by the call, each evaluation committee would integrate its list of candidacies, would send it to the respective power for approval and this, in turn, to the Senate, so that later Chamber delivers the lists to this authorityhe said after clarifying that the INE function was to receive the listings and not correct origin errors.

About time

The counselors Carla Humphrey and Norma de la Cruz warned that amending all irregularities is not at their competition, but that there are 48 hours for the adjustments to be made, because on February 20 it is the limit to send the information to the workshops Graphics of Mexico, where more than 600 million tickets will be printed.

In yesterday, the General Council also made it clear that they do not approve or qualify the listings, so they called on the candidacies to make the necessary requests to correct or complement their data, so it agreed that all the Declinations of candidacies must be submitted to the INE so that you have the information directly.

The largest voids in the lists are in the candidacies of the Judiciary, since of the 955 names sent none have contact data (mail or telephone) and also not identification as CURP or voter key. It is the same for the 422 acting candidates that had a direct pass, since none has them.

In the list of the Executive Power, corresponding to 1,430 candidates, in 13 records they do not have a mail; Two applicants to district judges have no circuit or specialty; No registration has a date of birth or telephone number (although it does not affect the systems) and no registration has a voter key.

In the case of the Legislative Power, there are four without the CURP, but one has an voter key; Eight records do not have a voter key, but five go with the CURP.