Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 16, 2025, p. 5
Towards mid-January, the federal government will formalize its electoral reform proposal once the forums held for its preparation have concluded, said President Claudia Sheinbaum. He anticipated that one of the main changes will focus on the review of the figure of multi-member candidacies because it is considered that they are nominations that are decided by the leadership of the political parties. “If minorities should have representation, even if they do not nominally achieve a deputation, that also seems fine to me.”
Likewise, he stated that it will be under review whether it is advisable to have Local Public Electoral Bodies as part of the organization of the elections or whether resources can be saved in this area. It is necessary to assess, he said, whether so many electoral bodies are required, particularly due to the use of resources.
When elaborating on the multi-member candidacies, he asserted that to win a deputation (local, federal, a municipal presidency), a position in the Executive (president, governor, municipal president), or in the Legislative (federal Congress, state or councils), “you have to convince the people, right? You have to win the vote of the people in an honest, transparent and clean, universal, secret and direct way.”
In another order of ideas, the president referred to the reform approved by the Congress of San Luis Potosí that ensures that in the next gubernatorial election only women will run (modification promoted to benefit the wife of Governor Ricardo Gallardo, Ruth González), and ratified her position against a close relative immediately running for the same position.
However, he pointed out that the reform he promoted against nepotism, to prevent positions from being inherited, will come into force until 2030, although in the case of Morena, this criterion will apply from 2027, as announced by the party.
It will be as deep as the judicial one: Castillo
The electoral reform will be as profound as the judicial reform, said yesterday the president of the Senate, Laura Itzel Castillo, who stressed that the document will not vent about fast-track.
At a press conference, the Morenista added that this proposal will be “the strongest dish” of the next regular session that begins in February.
He recalled that forums were held for the integration of the initiative and it will be a matter of seeing how it goes to consider whether they carry out a series of debates within the chambers of Congress. He considered it important that in the reform there be a policy of austerity, especially with regard to campaign expenses, since they are required to not be so high.
Regarding multi-member legislators, he considered it necessary for all political forces to have a presence in Congress depending on their electoral preferences.
Multi-member representation “must prevail,” he noted, after referring to the fact that the left always fought for this mechanism to exist and considered that if there were a reduction due to the electoral reform, it would be in general terms, “not just from the large parties, but also from the small ones… but we have to see in what direction the project comes.”
The president of the Senate rejected that this Chamber is legislating by steam or on its knees.
He also ruled out that there could be a difficult relationship with the president of the Permanent Commission, Kenia López, since he said he had a good relationship with the PAN member and also “I am not a quarrelsome person.”
When asked about the case of María Amparo Casar, accused of illicit use of powers and alleged fraud against Petróleos Mexicanos, Castillo declared that on this issue we can speak of a probable lack of ethics.
On the other hand, he reported that he is waiting for the federal Executive to send him the proposal for the appointment of Alejandro Gertz Manero to head an embassy, and thereby carry out the corresponding procedure.
“We have not received it, and until we have a proposal from the Executive we will determine it… We cannot do anything in that case, until it arrives.”
With information from Georgina Saldierna
