The members of the Complaints and Denunciations Commission of the National Electoral Institute (INE) denied the PRI and PAN precautionary measures against a spot by the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in which he appears with officials from his cabinet, ruling out that it is an act of improper promotion towards the Secretary of the Interior, Adam Augusto Lopez, with a view to the 2024 presidential succession.
In virtual session and unanimously of the directors claudia zavala, Cyrus Murayama Y adriana favelathe Commission ruled inadmissible the precautionary measure requested by the PRI and PAN due to the probable performance of anticipated campaign acts, personalized promotion and use of public resources.
The foregoing derived from the transmission of the promotional of the Federal Executive identified as “Fourth Report of the National Guard Government” in its versions for television and radio, in which López Hernández, Secretary of the Interior appears; Rosa Icela RodriguezSecretary of Security and Federal Citizen Protection and Luis Cresencio SandovalSecretary of National Defense, and that, according to the complainants, it is a positioning strategy in favor of the Secretary of the Interior for the 2024 Federal Electoral Process.
The directors considered that the material deals with the activities carried out by the government of the President of the Republic, corresponding to its actions in matters related to public security, hence the appearance of public servants is not contrary to the message alluding to the Fourth Report of Labors.
“There are no elements to determine that the purpose of the spot is to exalt the figure or image of any of them and its dissemination is within the time parameter, since by constitutional obligation the Federal Executive must render a report on September 1 of each year. work”, established the Commission.
In a second matter, the Commission declared the inadmissibility of the precautionary measure requested by the PRD also against the President of the Republic, the head of the Coordination of Social Communication and Spokesman of the Government of the Republic, and the director of CEPROPIE, derived of the promotion called Pensions are for all older adults in the country, which is disseminated on the social networks of the Government of Mexico, Twitter, Facebook, as well as on YouTube.
The PRD argued that the President of the Republic uses the National Palace and older adults to promote government achievements, breaking with the objective of the Report, since last April, he made the “report 100 days into the fourth year of government” and again uses public resources to generate spots to promote its new report.
The INE advisers considered that, in appearance of good law, the dissemination of the promotional is within the time parameter, since by constitutional obligation it must submit a work report during its mandate every September 1.
“As for the personalized promotion, from a preliminary vision, it is not noted that the material has as its main objective to position him or any political party in the face of the 2024 federal elections, but is aimed at informing the achievements, actions and tasks of the government,” the Commission stated.
