“It is very likely” that the Judiciary will annul electoral plan B: AMLO

Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday March 3, 2023, p. 8

They are cynical!President Andrés Manuel López Obrador exclaimed yesterday when he learned that the National Electoral Institute (INE) questioned the entry into force of the plan B. of the electoral reform, with which the functions of the executive secretary of the organization, Edmundo Jacobo Molina, cease.

In yesterday’s conference, the president predicted; However it is very probable that the Judiciary will annul the electoral law and he will return to his position and it may take another 15 years to leave the post.

Hours after a late-night edition of the Official diary published the plan BLópez Obrador criticized the position of Jacobo Molina, who has been in office since 2008.

Maybe you want to have a job for lifesaid the President. “You forget that we live in a Republic, not a monarchy. If a reform is made and it is already considered that a position like the one he held is unnecessary and that you have to save…”

In his effort to justify the reform, López Obrador showed the net salary of Jacobo Molina: 166 thousand net pesos.

He then appealed to his phrase there can be no rich government with poor people and considered that this is immoral. They are dishonest. This gentleman, imagine, 15 years (in office). And how much does the gentleman earn?…

He explained that the official also has per diems, private health insurance, savings account and special trusts.

Mania from USA

The president received a question about whether the support of the US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, for the opposition rally last Sunday implied a formal position from Washington towards electoral reform.

No, it’s not Bidenhe replied. It is a bad habit, a habit that our neighboring friends in the United States government have, which dates back about 200 years, but I hope that it will go away, it is a disease that goes away with time.

He then announced that the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, will attend the conference this Friday to explain the electoral reform.

López Obrador ratified that the amendment will not impact the operation of the INE. He stressed that the main objective is to reduce the cost of electoral organization. It is about obtaining some savings so that the elections do not cost 25 billion pesos, with a golden bureaucracy, he pointed out.

He regretted that the lack of a qualified majority in Congress has slowed down the constitutional reform in electoral matters. He insisted that the next head of the Executive requires that legislative support to promote changes.

The President dismissed some critics of the reform, such as that of the former rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, José Narro, whom he described as a cacique.

He declared that, in wickedNarro suggested in his call for the meeting in defense of the INE that the defense of university autonomy could later follow: a cheater.

–Would you ask the next president to present the electoral reform as you had planned? – He was asked.

-I am not going to give orders or I am going to give instructions…